networking question

[Carruth, Rusty]

On the naming, they had a semi-reasonable justification.  Makes what I do a bit more… interesting, but I was able to get past it…  And someone else has explained why ‘they’ did that, with a fix.

Whether its DSL or cable, if your Ethernet coming out of your device that connects you to ‘the internet’ isn’t capable of more than 100, well that’s all you get (that was my condition at first).  However, as you say, your box is supposedly gigabit…  (And, yeah, sorry, why I thought Comcast was CenturyLink I’ll never tell ;-)

And I’m afraid your guess that somebody changed it ‘accidentally’ is probably right.  I’ve heard of dumber things….


From: PLUG-discuss [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Jim
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2018 2:29 PM
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Subject: Re: networking question

On 09/05/2018 01:18 PM, Carruth, Rusty wrote:
First, the last question - yes, someone decided it was better to not have eth0 any more, so now they are those weird enp4s1 names.

Who are the idiots that change things for the hell of it?

It’s ok once you get used to it, I guess, but it’s a small pain getting used to.  (There are things you can do to make it go back to eth0, but that may cause more issues than just living with it).

My first thought was - does he have a 100MBs port in there somewhere.  E.g. someone installed a 10/100 switch or hub between your computer and your Comcast DSL (I assume) line - and that includes the modem.  (I had mine increased over 100 a while back, but only got 100 until I got a new modem that wasn’t 10/100! … oops)
It's not DSL, but cable.  The cable comes into the apartment and connects to my modem which connects to my router and from there to my computer.  The modem is capable of 343Mbps down and has a gigabit ethernet connection.  The router is a gigabit router.  The same setup got me 150 Mbps in June.  Comcast is such a fustercluck that it wouldn't surprise me if somebody set the modem to 100Mbps and nobody else knows about it.



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