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ylee@pobox.com (Yeechang Lee) wrote in
news:279926f2.0207260202.5aa81dad@posting.google.com: 

> "Bruce G. Karnacki" <karnacki@invalid.com> wrote:
>> I have my originally issued (12/99 - @home) RCA DCM105 cable modem. 
>> It's been working like a champ until today.
>> 
>> Twice in the last few hours, all the lights go out, including the
>> power light.  Pushing the on-off button does nothing.  The only thing
>> that will get it back on is to remove power at the ac adapter plug and
>> replug, or unplug the ac adapter from the wall and replug it.  I don't
>> have to wait any period of time. 
> 
> A little late to the party, but I'm Redwood City and have been seeing
> every one of the symptoms listed in the thread (sometimes all the
> lights are off, sometimes all the lights are on, modem is stone dead
> in either case) several times a day over the past few days. I just
> tried going to the SAS site at https://12.242.17.9/, was told my
> "computer" wasn't registered (a different MAC address was shown to be
> registered, though I didn't think to check to see which one
> corresponded with my actual MAC address), and was offered the choice
> to do so. Did so, chose the link to reset the cable modem (took
> another couple of visits to the site), restarted the DHCP daemon on my
> Linux box. Not sure whether any of this will actually help; if the
> connection is still running when I get up tomorrow that'll be a good
> sign.
> 

ATTBI swapped out the 105 for a 245 9 days ago.  Problem is now gone.  
Friends of mine that still have the 105 have told me that they still have 
the power problem.