Here at Castle Haran an Internet storm looms:
Surfie, my modem, began losing connectivity yesterday.
Surfie is a Motorola Surfboard SB4100 Cable Modem and she's provided good and faithful service for ten years, so her sudden and repeated manifestations of intermittent connectivity were shocking. The folks at my Internet Service Provider (Comcast, the monopoly here locally) insisted their signal was fine and the problem must be in my modem. They said
Surfie was "old" and was no longer supported by Comcast. I could either buy a new modem or lease one from them for $7US per month.
I told them I'd think about it and proceeded to run
Yomako (my computing system) through every test I could think of, in hopes this connectivity problem could thus be cured or at least isolated. That testing took all evening, all night and part of this morning. On the one hand, I'm pleased to report
Surfie is holding connectivity now; but on the other, I still fear she could fall back into yesterday's discouraging state of affairs at any moment. Please send good thoughts her way. Thank you!
Perhaps, though, I do need to get a new modem — just to keep up with broadband technology. What I'm looking at, after perusing Comcast's list of recommended modems, is a Motorola SB6120 SURFboard DOCSIS 3.0 eXtreme Broadband Cable Modem for $86.99 through
Amazon.com. Comcast is doing this Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification 3.0 thing now. The ideal modem would be an Arris Touchstone Cable Modem WBM760A, but I can't find any!
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