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The old modems "phoned home" every couple of hours with their
statistics.  If you could reset the power before this occurs then Shaw
would have inaccurate stats.  The new modems, well things are a little
different.

Kin Wong wrote:
> Just a rumour, but I also heard it was to help monitor bandwidth usage.  The 
> old modems lack some functionality that could give them spurious values.
> 
> I know that in the past they have switched out modems in order to cap
> speeds. I wouldn't be at all surprised if that's what they are doing
> here.
> 
> Jesse
> 
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