--- Michael Sammartano wrote: > The problem is most likely the connections in the > area. Did he add a > splitter? TV? etc! In my experience with COX when > there is packet loss > of that magnitude it is always something silly. > Perhaps he has a faulty > coax from wall to modem. Problem could also be in to > long of a cable > from wall to modem. Look at all the possibilities. > The last one being > the modem. Modems do not slowly go bad, tey are > either good or bad! No > moving parts, therefore not likely. All I know is that last year, my dialup modem did the slow die over about 8 months. Wife's was cooking at a consistant 40+kb and mine, after June/July would only get around 33kb. It finally died in Feburary, that is when I got the qworst cheapie dsl 256/256kb. And since it isn't 'totally' down, cox is trying to 'sell' the service and modem. I don't trust them as the saying goes 'as far as I can throw them'!! My Hayes Accura 56k did the slow die till it finally took the fairly fast 'last breath'..that took two days of 10k-25k!! We watched that 'meter/graphic' that kppp has for send/recieve speeds. Cox says that the others on 'that street' are up and no or almost no packet loss on their pings!! Still would like to 'hook it up to a good known line' and IF the stupid that comes out tries to sell a new and it worked with your (whoever) line, I/we/Jim could basically argue the point!! We got 'burned' last time he had a problem..the 'stupid' completely crashed his o/s!! Don't know how, but he did. Then, his 'gateway junker's' cd's wouldn't completely and cleanly reinstall/repair/whatever his o/s. He had a crippled system for about a year. A real weird way of getting it all the way up! I wasn't into linux any (and still am way below all you guys), and it was about a ten minute, weird boot that he finally got going with!! SO, we are somewhat worried with them touching the keyboard!! I also plan tomorrow, since I won't be 'with someone else who was not interested like today', to check all connections. What I did yesterday was plug the main line thru the wall straight into the modem and yesterday it didn't 'improve it (it was still totally dead then, no steady cable light)'!!! He has a three way splitter, two tuners in the tv and the cable box. One goes straight to 'tuner 2', one into the cable box, and the last one into the modem. Been that way for over a year, no problems, but like I said, I unhooked the splitter and straight into the modem, still no go yesterday, then about an hour after I left, the 'cable' light was on, and he sent an email, but slowly. The TV seems to work just fine, no lines or anything in the picture on any channel. When trying it in xp this morning, mail.yahoo.com took about a whole minute to pop this morning. Guessing about 5k/bits of bandwidth!! Yes, I THINK it is their problem, but Jim is broke for the month and who knows what the 'stupid' will try to stick him with. IF it is the modem, the wife and I can get one from Fry's or whoever has one on sale. But I want to KNOW it is bad. He got a small, and it is gone into the previous cpu and tv, inheritance a few years ago. When you are basically home bound unless someone helps you go, and then only short trips which you 'pay' for with pain for a day or two, you need something like cox cable tv and the internet (Jim loves gaming) to while away the time!! He cost us about $50 this week, he got sick and had to go to the doc on Thursday. I slept two nights on the floor, thur/fri night, at his place. So I know the 'net' is messed up now. 'Twas glad to get home and on the 'fast and steady' 256k dsl here!! ===== Cyclists should expect and demand safe accommodation on our public roads, just as does every other user. Nothing more is expected. Nothing less is acceptable! __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail --------------------------------------------------- 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