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Hi, I currently have Comcast in Michigan and am considering making the switch to WOW. I am comparing several factors, one being the quality of Usenet service offered by each provider. Comcast...

Roger Cable, in Canada has now increased cable modem speed to 5 Mb down I don't know what the upload speed is now. -- Fundamentalism is fundamentally wrong. To reply to this message, replace...

I run an old SMC7004ABR router -- four ports, parallel printer port. Have had it for 4-5 years and it works flawlessly. I use a Netgear ME102 access point connected to one of the ports to the SMC...

Hi all, Maybe the answer's staring at me in the face, but does this page http://www.homenetworking.comcast.net/learnmore.asp basically say that I can't set up my OWN network at home because it...

Can anyone tell me the magic sequence to get my (new) Comcast Internet service running under Linux without having to boot Windows and run the "Self- Install" software? I do have Windows-98 installed...

Any opinions about their cable ISP service? -- ----- Joe S.

Hi all Im having a problem connecting 3 pc's together and sharing a broadband connection. i recently purchased a ethernet broadband router hoping this would work but I cant seem to get even just...

A friend of a friend has an old PC (Pentium 100, Windows NT SP6a) which she wants to connect to the Internet using RoadRunner. Unfortunately the self-install program refused to run, either because NT...

Hi, I've been on Cox cablemodem for awhile, with a Toshiba cablemodem. Within the last 3-4 weeks, I've had a series of problems: 1) About 3 1/2 weeks ago, we started getting really low download...

I just installed high speed internet for my Dad's computer. In the attic, the main cable feeds a 2-way splitter that has one leg to the cable modem, the other leg goes to an amp feeding a 4 way...

Something has changed on my laptop which prevents me from establishing a PPP connection with my modem. Whenever I create a new DuN connectoid on my laptop it has started automatically selecting -...

My connection keeps falling asleep or just plain falling over and generally acting weird and cranky. If I don't use the connection for a while I get this message to work offline/try again with the...

Hi Im having lots of modem problems in the last week. Really not sure what to try next. Would appreciate some advice. Firstly, Im running Windows XP Home Edition Version 2002. I have a v92 external...

TechTV told 285 San Francisco employees on Thursday that their jobs are being eliminated, a move that was widely feared by workers after Comcast announced in March that it would acquire the...

Where can I find a list of "AT|" commands?

When i start up my computer the signal level of the modem is usually 48 or 49 dBmV . After a couple of hours of use it goes up to 61 dBmV and then i have to disconnect the modem cable at the splitter...

where can i load 1 from my modem says it cant find it do all yall cable users have a WCDMI.dll file?

While inside my LAN, I want to be able to simulate being on the outside of my LAN to test web page serving and other services. Is there an easy way to do this? For instance, I want to be able to...

Hello all, i have question, do any body can say me how i secure one cable modem or may be CMTS to user can not change ip addresses ? I configure my modems to get ip adresses from DHCP server, but...