Re: [SLUG] OT: Optus cable problem?
On 8 Jan, Ken Foskey wrote: I had a problem with the cable. The cable modem has an actual address that you can talk to to find out the signal strength of the cable. The joints of the cable up the pole corroded after a few years. They moved the connector and it was better. They ended up rerunning the cable into my house because it was not 100% reliable. Since then it is fine. Sounds like my problem: the technician tested the signal strength and said the noise was high - he spent most of his time outside the house attending to the box outside to improve the signal-to-noise ratio, and said more work would be needed to tune up an amplifier (?) further down the street. I must say, I like the Optus people. luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] OT: Optus cable problem?
I've just been off the net with a suspected Cable modem failure (Optus, 26 hrs). But it's just spontaneously started working again. Anyone else here experienced the same thing, or was it really just me? luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] OT: Optus cable problem?
if it's one of the motorola surfboards i had a similar thing happen about 6 months ago. my access speed would crap out. a powercycle would briefly resolve. then i was getting intermittant access before it finally died. On Friday 07 January 2005 17:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just been off the net with a suspected Cable modem failure (Optus, 26 hrs). But it's just spontaneously started working again. Anyone else here experienced the same thing, or was it really just me? luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] OT: Optus cable problem?
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 21:00 +1100, Brett Fenton wrote: if it's one of the motorola surfboards i had a similar thing happen about 6 months ago. my access speed would crap out. a powercycle would briefly resolve. then i was getting intermittant access before it finally died. On Friday 07 January 2005 17:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just been off the net with a suspected Cable modem failure (Optus, 26 hrs). But it's just spontaneously started working again. Anyone else here experienced the same thing, or was it really just me? Consider the heat of the day. I had a P100 box as a firewall and it would stop working during the day when it was extremely hot. Heat can expand things and open a dry solder joint or cause problems with computers not cooled correctly. I had a problem with the cable. The cable modem has an actual address that you can talk to to find out the signal strength of the cable. The joints of the cable up the pole corroded after a few years. They moved the connector and it was better. They ended up rerunning the cable into my house because it was not 100% reliable. Since then it is fine. -- Ken Foskey OpenOffice.org developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
