On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 21:00 +1100, Brett Fenton wrote: > if it's one of the motorola surfboards i had a similar thing happen about 6 > months ago. my access speed would crap out. a powercycle would briefly > resolve. then i was getting intermittant access before it finally died. > > On Friday 07 January 2005 17:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've just been off the net with a suspected Cable modem failure (Optus, > > 26 hrs). But it's just spontaneously started working again. Anyone > > else here experienced the same thing, or was it really just me?
Consider the heat of the day. I had a P100 box as a firewall and it would stop working during the day when it was extremely hot. Heat can expand things and open a dry solder joint or cause problems with computers not cooled correctly. I had a problem with the cable. The cable modem has an actual address that you can talk to to find out the signal strength of the cable. The joints of the cable up the pole corroded after a few years. They moved the connector and it was better. They ended up rerunning the cable into my house because it was not 100% reliable. Since then it is fine. -- Ken Foskey OpenOffice.org developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
