Posts Tagged ‘comcast’

Graphing Motorola Surfboard SB5101 Cable Modem Stats with Cacti

June 28, 2006

So you’ve got a cable modem, and you’re having problems (or you just like to track everything). You’ve already been to the management page of your cable modem (in most cases it is reachable at http://192.168.100.1/), but now you want more, or at least to be able to track changes over time. What can you [...]

3 Techs and Back to Renting

April 12, 2006

Well Comcast finally showed up 30 minutes after they first called. The first tech got lost, so shortly after she finally arrived, another tech showed up followed by the shift supervisor (the neighbors were most impressed, one of them even got a free service call out of it).
They tested this, and looked at that, they [...]

As Slow as Dial-up

April 9, 2006

Well if you’re reading this post then you are very lucky. In what seems to be a yearly event, my Comcast cable connection is horrible. When it is up, sometimes it is as slow as dial-up, and at best it is at DSL speeds. We are supposed to have a tech out Wednesday evening. Frustrating.
I [...]