So did they determine the problem was on their end? I have been experiencing occasional disconnections from Cox. I think it's on their end. My Internet connection goes down for about 3 minutes at a time every now and then. Cox said they could send a tech out but I decided to wait. Are you experiencing similar outages, or something else? Don On Dec 19, 2003, at 5:07 PM, der.hans wrote: > moin, moin, > > been having intermittent problems with my cable connection :(. > Actually, not > with the connection, rather with getting off the cox network to the > outside > world. > > Cox decided to send out a tech even though the problem appears to be at > their edge routers and should be verifiable from their network. > > The tech showed up an hour after the service window ( I did get called > after > the service window was over to let me know the tech would be late due > to an > emergency ). > > While waiting Qwest called claiming they can finally get DSL to me. > Hmm, > we'll see. > > Anyway, the tech did notice that the orginal setup had a splitter > meant for > inside use in my box outside and that the cabling was badly crimped. He > fixed that. > > He also didn't blink when we used my GNU/Linux laptop to check stuff > and > mentioned he keeps seeing more and more of it :). I do have business > services, but I think he's actually from the residential stuff because > he > mentioned that his team can't see the accounts for business accounts. > > Another tech showed up. They seemed to be pretty impressed with > GNU/Linux > and the fact that the 200 MHz boxen I have out front are useful. I > gave them > Knoppix CDs and suggested they show up for a PLUG meeting :). > > ciao, > > der.hans > -- > # https://www.LuftHans.com/ http://www.AZOTO.org/ > # Practice socially consious hedonism. Do whatever you want, > # as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else. - der.hans > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >