I've maintained my old 24. IP because my repeated attempts to even GET a dynamic 68. have all failed. I never installed the "conversion kit" because you don't install "the (high speed) internet" on your pc; you connect your pc TO the internet. Sorry, but I'm just not that stupid, and I dont' need five monitoring programs running in my systray and eating up my RAM. The last person I talked to who had a Cox rep at his house said the Cox guy actually told him to not install the conversion kit and just set up dhcp. <shrug>
I want my free month. I was down for four days, and it sucks now. I've been told Jan 22, Jan 25, Feb 28, and "soon". This is ridiculous. They're making it harder than it needs to be by forcing all this dynamic, "managed" care on us. Just give me an IP and stay out of my way. -- -j On 1 Feb 2002, Shannon Roddy wrote: > Date: 01 Feb 2002 09:04:40 -0600 > From: Shannon Roddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: BRLUG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [brluglist] Cox Cable needs to give free month thi s month... > > I have been having problems since before the @home/Cox switch over. My > problems started in mid to late December and progressively got worse. > For the last three weeks the connection was pracctically unusable. Only > in the last couple of days has it been reliable. > > Your problem is one of the switches in Baton Rouge. I was having > anywhere from 10-85% packet LOSS. Also when ssh'd into a machine at my > work, my home machine is reported as destination host unreachable" when > the router is dropping packets. I think that it is something as simple > as a losse piece of CAT5 in a connector somewhere. But I cannot get > them to even look at it. When you call Cox the first thing they tell > you is to ping your gateway. Everytime I call them (after spending 4 > hours on hold) I immediately ask to be sent to a 2nd level tech. Then I > explain the problem, they see the same results, and they say they'll > work on it. DHCP still does not work in Port Allen, I am still using my > old IP. > > I agree, they need to give a free month. > > Shannon > > On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 03:38, Douglas Adams wrote: > > I don't know all the details, but a local news station did a small > > report on cox cable tonight. My father told me he watched it, and I > > caught the butt end of it flipping through the channels. The last > > statement I caught before I flipped the channel was the anchor man > > wishing people good luck getting through to customer service. > > > > On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 02:28, Boyd Davezac wrote: > > > Myself and several others have been having serious problems with Cox > > > internet. > > > > > > Since they changed to 4 hour leases on ip's with dhcp, some of my friends > > > have lost their connection entirely, while I haven't I have trouble > > > loading > > > webpages. I have to hit reload many many times before something loads. > > > Some > > > pages load fine - but most of the time it's slow. I decided to boot into > > > Linux from Windows so I could analyze the situation. Here is what I > > > found: > > > > > > Output from ifconfig eth0: > > > > > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:CC:59:4A:3D > > > inet addr:68.11.208.100 Bcast:68.11.208.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > > > UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1 > > > RX packets:7732 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > > > TX packets:4078 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > > > collisions:357 txqueuelen:100 > > > RX bytes:2618784 (2.4 Mb) TX bytes:553814 (540.8 Kb) > > > Interrupt:5 Base address:0xc800 > > > > > > As you can see, after transmitting 540 kb and receiving 2.4Mb it had 357 > > > collisions. I am not a network expert and don't know what is causing this > > > as this was not a problem before. I think the collision number should be > > > much lower huh? > > > > > > I am wondering how everyone else's connection is and could someone tell me > > > if the collisions are indeed high or is this normal? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Boyd > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > > > http://www.hotmail.com > > > > > > ================================================ > > > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > > > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > > > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > > > your subscription information. > > > ================================================ > > -- > > "Be true to yourself and you will never fall" - Beastie Boys > > > > > > ================================================ > > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > > your subscription information. > > ================================================ > ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
