Technical question: I have cable modem service with RCN. My cable modem is a Scientific Atlanta DPC2100. When I boot up I have Internet access for a few minutes then none. If I reboot the cable modem I will get access again for a few minutes. If I ping say google, response times will be a speedy 17-30ms. But within a couple of minutes response times will bump up to 1000, 2000 even 4500ms and then pings will timeout altogether and it's then that Internet access is gone. On its own it sometimes comes back for a few minutes either with the high pings times sometimes with low. Sometimes the service will come back even for an hour or more. I have a tech coming out on Monday. But I wondered what the problem sounds like to folks. I know the problem is not between be and my router/access point as that connection is always 100% and under 1ms. And reseating the connection between the router and the cable modem never impacts connection.
2006-12-03
04:07:18
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