[olug] LAN Connections

[Jonathan Warren]

Say what you want about Cox but I think there customer service is the best I have ever delt with.  They do have some questionalbe practices but they compensate with great customer service.  Nothing like running cable lines on the ground just waiting for a mower to chew it up.

On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 02:12:07PM -0500, Craig Wolf wrote:
> I was having some of the same problems and Cox came out and said I was
> splitting my line too many times(twice) so they ran a new line from the
> box to my computer.  Also, they found a frayed cable in the yard and had
> to replace it as well.  You may want to give a look see and make sure
> that all of the cables in the house and out to the external box are
> good.
> 
> Craig Wolf
> Linux Web Server Support
> Backup Supervisor
> Desktop/Network Specialist
> Support Services Center
> Millard Public Schools
> 402-894-6283
> 
> 
> >>> dkauffman at tconl.com 9/12/2002 >>>
> I'm having a problem keeping my connection to the cable modem up. The 
> ethernet on-board "card " is a TLAN and it connects to a DHCP 3 com (?)
> cable 
> modem. It seems to go down later at night 8-11 or so. I've reset the
> modem 
> and it'll be up for no more than ten minutes before the connection goes
> dead 
> again. I'm on Qwest Choice Online. They replaced this modem Tuesday and
> the 
> same thing happened again last night. Can you folks offer any
> suggestions as 
> to what might be happening  and preventive meauures I could take? I'm
> using 
> RH 7.2  Linux as my routing service and as far as I can tell everything
> else 
> seems to be working right. 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Don Kauffman
> 
> PS. Gated isn't running.
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