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I was re-organizing the office/data center/room full ‘o cables today and needed to reboot the router/internet server. Judge of my amazement when Comcast refused to supply a new network address for it. How do I know it’s that and not something else? Easy: I plugged in my iBook, got a different address, and all was … Continue reading “I really really really *&(*&^*^& hate Comcast”
A power outage this morning created a host of issues. Comcast, for reasons known only to them, has issues with DHCP lease expirations and renewals. Sometimes it becomes impossible to renew a lease on a given network interface. The only resolution I can find is to swap the cards (WAN and LAN), but that creates … Continue reading “I [still] hate Comcast”
They dropped my service twice yesterday and so far once today. For some reason, traffic just stops flowing and nothing short of rebooting both the cable modem and the server will resolve it. The cable modem seems unable to re-establish the flow of bits to the external interface and using dhclient(8) to try dropping and … Continue reading “I hate Comcast: intermittent outages likely”
Have I mentioned that I hate Comcast?. Something has changed somewhere in the past couple of days to make networking here very unstable and damn near unusable. Since a. this site doesn’t generate enough (any?) income*, not even enough to cover a TypePad install, and b. since I use broadband anyway for other things, hosting … Continue reading “Final transmission??”
Reviewing my account with Speakeasy, I realize I am paying more than $50/month for a 1.5/384k connection…. It’s all very well to say that Qwest or other providers are worse because of their poor service.