hello again - and a question about Rogers

[Stephen]

 --- Matt Cahill <m-cahill-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote: 
>  
>   Hello all,
> 
>     Once again, I've returned to the list, eager to see the comings
>     and goings of Q's & A's.  Hope everyone is well.
> 
>     During the last while, I've switched distros.  I've moved from
>     Mandrake (v10) to Libranet, taking advantage of their 2.8.1 trial
>     freebie.  It's new, it's Debian, it's a bit of a learning curve,
>     but I'm liking it.
> 
>     One peculiarity that's been driving me nuts is the following:
>     back when I was using Mdk, infrequently I'd find that my machine
>     couldn't connect to the Rogers at Home cable modem.  This was almost
>     always from a cold-boot situation (as in: get home, turn on
>     computer).  I'd try restarting the network service, but no luck.
>     I was usually left with two solutions: power-cycling the cable
>     modem and restarting services (which was never a guarantee) or
>     simply rebooting.

Hey Matt.

Why not leave your computer on? I never shutdown, any of mine, at least not on
purpose. There's quite a bit of wear and tear on a system booting it up
constantly (or so I've heard). That should alleviate your problem, no? :)

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Regards,
Stephen
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