Re: Linksys Wireless Router and Dropped Cable Modem Connections

three-eight-hotel wrote:

> The problem is that the cable modem seems to get knocked off-line, a
> lot! Sometimes, several times an hour!

Maybe your provider is throttling your usage that way.

If you are being a bandwidth hog on your neighborhood's last mile, they
should do something about it.



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Mike Easter

On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:58:34 -0700, in
<(E-Mail Removed)>, Mike Easter <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>three-eight-hotel wrote:
>
>> The problem is that the cable modem seems to get knocked off-line, a
>> lot! Sometimes, several times an hour!
>
>Maybe your provider is throttling your usage that way.
>
>If you are being a bandwidth hog on your neighborhood's last mile, they
>should do something about it.

Unlikely -- throttling is usually much more sophisticated than that.

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