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Article #618Re: SurfBoard 4100 - crummy?
From: Gary Danaher
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 14:45
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 14:45
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It's not a pile of junk and it probably isn't broken. Turn off all connections and then ping the gateway and see what you have. Jp Calderone wrote: > Recently switched back to cable after a stretch on dialup... I'm in a > different area now though, and with a different ISP. Everything seemed > ok until I signed on to gnutella. It seems that the "high" number of > connections (I like to keep 15+ gnutella host connections open) is > driving the SurfBoard 4100 cable modem into a confused state of > disfunction. Connectivity remains, but at a seriously poor quality > level. Pings take upwards of 5 seconds to come back, and total > throughput for *all* connections, gnutella or otherwise, falls to > <10KB/s. I've done a lot of testing and I am quite confident this is a > modem problem, I can post details if anyone thinks it might help... but > basically my question is: Is the SurfBoard 4100 a pile of junk? Or is > it just mine that is defective? I've been hesitant to contact Comcast > about it because I'm using an unsupported operating system; should I > call tech support? > > Thanks, > Jp Calderone
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