[TriLUG] really slow web. help!

[jbrigman at nc.rr.com]

The broadband connector they use at the curb will eventually "go bad". 
I take that to mean either it corrodes or eventually comes apart from 
natural daily thermal cycling.  The problem will manifest itself with 
the "activity" light staying on most of the time and the broadband 
router will "fall off" the network and not easily re-acquire a DHCP IP.

Also it's possible for the cable-to-your-house from the curbside to go 
bad. It's not always buried uniformly and if it comes to the surface 
anywhere, it can easily be damaged.

Beware that both of these things can happen with no apparent effect on 
your television picture.

JKB

----- Original Message -----
From: Scott Lambdin <lopaki at gmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 12:41 pm
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] really slow web. help!
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <trilug at trilug.org>

> I had slowness like that a couple weeks ago.  After several painful
> conversations with tech support, a tech came out and fixed it in 
> like 10
> minutes.  It was some issue with a connecter outside.
> 
> --Scott
> 
> On 3/26/07, Alan Porter <porter at trilug.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > hub=netgear en108-tp
> > > router=netgear rp614v2
> >
> > It might sound dumb, but cycle power on the router.
> > Might as well get the hub while you're at it.
> >
> > From time to time, I used to see some weird slowness on
> > my network at home when I used a Netgear MR314.  Its
> > routing tables got all funny and it needed to be whacked
> > with the sensible stick.
> >
> > Alan
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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