Dustin, I have a lot of my customers on Cox and some of my own equipment. One thing I've noticed fooling with Cox is it doesn't take much line degradation to really mess with packet transfer. A bad line can still handle cable TV and look just fine but lose ninety percent of the packet transfers. Cox can test that line remotely up to the "modem" and you can ping your closes router to see if this is the case.
Will Lowe ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dustin Puryear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 3:21 PM Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Cox cable and unreliable connections.. > At 12:38 PM 7/14/2003 +0200, you wrote: > >On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 19:30, will hill wrote: > >leases to keep the pool rotating -- and found that this failed > >miserably. Plus it's disruptive and annoying for customers. > > > >There are a whole lot of variables that could explain why Dustin is > >losing his TS session. The Cox connection is one of many and IMHO not > >the most likely root cause. > > Well, here is the deal. We have two Win2k TS machines, both configured the > same way. One is on business DSL with Network Telephone and the other > available via consumer Cox cable. It is a common occurrence for the Win2k > TS on Cox to drop connections. It is rare for the other Win2k TS to drop a > connection. > > Differences: > > 1. Internet provider > 2. CPE and router > > The same: > > 1. Client > 2. Client Internet provider > 3. Win2k server hardware > 4. Win2k server configuration > > So it's one of the differences unless I'm missing something. > > As far as the IP addresses changing, we have a domain pointing at our Cox > IP. We only have to change it if we reset the Cox cable modem. > > > --- > Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Puryear Information Technology, LLC <http://www.puryear-it.com> > Providing expertise in the management, integration, and > security of Windows and UNIX systems, networks, and applications. > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
