I've got a Motorola surfboard which works like a champ. Nothing else changed. Things are working the way they always did and so I've got no idea what happened.
The main reason I reported it was as a warning that Cox can do things if they want to. Cox does monitor traffic and turn people off. Last year, several Cox users wandered into Computer Heaven to see what could be done for them. My impression was that they had been turned off for virus infections and music sharing. If they did this to me on purpose and specifically, it's a new twist. While the address was bogus, it seemed to still be connected. I pinged LSU and got a valid IP address back. On Saturday 09 October 2004 11:09 pm, Karthik Poobalasubramanian wrote: > What's the cable modem you have? This happened to me once when I was > switching between modems. My linksys modem refused to pick up an ip from > cox. I had to powercycle the modem couple of times before it picked up an > IP. > > I don't think cox enforces usage. or monitors ports. They block incoming > port 80 & 25 and filter port 25.
