LOL  Which modem are u using?  We have the Cisco 678 rooter from Qwest and
its the biggest piece of sh*t...Theyve had the red code virsus hit it...so
we had to close off port 80...then a second version of red code hit, now
they are saying there is another virus out there....Im like if you cant
protect your product why buy a sh*t load of them and sell them to the
public....

sorry about my little rant there...Im just a little pissed at the quality
of the product, the support (lack of) they provide.

On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Digital Wokan wrote:

> I have to ask because @Home never blocked me for some reason.  Tonight,
> I have a theory.  Do any of those people who can't use port 80 have the
> old LanCity modems, or were you all switched to the newer models?
> I lost service for a few hours today, and when the tech came out he
> tried swapping out my LanCity for a new model.  Only thing is, they
> can't switch me out because when they set up my account, they entered
> some node or something incorrectly.  The old LanCity doesn't care, but
> the new models do and won't sync up.  They can't change my info without
> corrupting the account under their current system, so we put the LC back
> on and after a few minutes, it sync'd up again.
> I never realized just how programmable those new ones are.  I always
> though if your service was "capped" at so many K/sec, it was because
> @Home did it at the router.  Seems it's the modems doing the capping and
> LC's are too old to do it.  (Yes!)
> This does leave me wondering... Why would a manufacturer purposely sell
> something crippled to consumers?  If I went out to buy a cable modem
> (assume using the docsis standard), why would I want to buy something
> that's been crippled?  I would think there'd be a great incentive for a
> company to sell a cable modem that can't be capped.  Customers would
> very likely prefer that in principle at the least.
> 
> (Until then, they can have my LanCity when they pry it from my cold
> hands... maybe I should go turn off the AC.)
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