On 9/17/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 4. Wait 15 minutes. (Yes, that long. Really.) > > I have to second step #4. That's how long it really takes for all the > broken electrons to flow back down the wires to Comcast.
For those interested in "Why": What we're after here is two things: One is that most cable operators have their modems set to speak to only one Ethernet (MAC) address on the customer side. The modem associates with the first address it sees. Power cycling the modem will reset this. This one really only needs a wait for a few seconds. The second thing is that sometimes there is some kind of glitch between the cable modem and the cable operator's plant (inclusive). Dropping signal at your end for several minutes will cause the head-end to decide you've gone away, and clear whatever state it keeps about you. Thus when you come back, it re-does all of the initialization stuff. If you come back too quickly, it might decide you just glitched for a bit, and keep that (presumably corrupt) state around. -- Ben _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
