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
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