On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 9:58 AM, John Carmonne <[email protected]> wrote: > This happens to my Time Warner Cable modem about twice a month. I > have to reset the modem and go through the reconnection process. >
Process?? There's a process?? To reset the Motorola SURFboard(c) SB5100 modem that Time Warner insists I "rent" from them I just unplug it, blink a few a times, then plug it back in and wait for the connection lights to settle down. If you want to go the extra mile, make sure the router WAN ethernet is NOT connected to the modem until the modem thinks it has successfully connected to whatever it is that is upstream of a cable modem. Not sure this actually matters, but it can't hurt and it's how the cable company says to do it: Bring the modem up all the way first, connect the router to the cable modem and then power the router up. In my case Time Warner's DHCP remembers the MAC address of whatever last device successfully connected to their network. My guess is that this is their crude way of "preventing" more than one computer/router from being connected to their network at the same time. In practice it means that if you switch the device connected to the modem you either have to wait some period of time (5, 10, 15, 20 minutes ??) before connecting another device with a different MAC address. Either that or "clone" the MAC address of the last device. (My understanding is that cloning is illegal so I always just wait through the timeout period ... ;-) My SB5100 has a "standby mode" button. If yours also has a feature like this make sure the modem's standby indicator light is NOT on. It should have an indicator light for "online" (or such) to indicate a successful modem connection. (Though as I said, you also have to make sure your cable companies DHCP will accept the MAC address of your device and assign it an IP address). -irrational john -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
