Re: Bad Cable Modem/AC Adapter?

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From: Bit Twister
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 02:22

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On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 01:58:59 GMT, Miguel Sanchez wrote:
> I scheduled a service call over the weekend, but got a voice mail this
> morning saying that there was a network outage in the area (San
> Mateo/Foster City) and they cancelled my service call.  
> I never thought I'd here that from att ;).
> 
> Now my modem is doing other strange things like losing connection, but
> the lights remain on and the power button doesn't work.  Previously, I
> would just renew my dhcp lease ("dhcpcd -n" over and over until i got a
> valid lease), but now it just times out -- according to the firewall logs.
> 
> Maybe they finally realized
> that their dhcp server is dodgy.  Makes me long for the days of @home and
> the legit static IP.

Had the same problem with @home. DHCP server was out for 5 days straight.
Glad I had all the numbers and was able to run static.

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