hello again - and a question about Rogers

[Kevin Cozens]

Matt Cahill wrote:

>KC> What modem do you have? I had no problems with my Rogers connection at
>KC> first. After several months I started having problems. It turned out
>KC> that it was a bad modem (I had a Terayon TJ615 modem). It was replaced
>KC> with a SurfBoard 5100 and life is good again.
>
>  Interesting.  What was the issue with the Tarayon?  I have one, but
>  I'm pretty sure it's working OK.  Did your old Terayon pretend to
>  work fine by any chance?
>
After I had been using the cable modem for several months my connection 
to the net would just go off-line for no apparent reason. The Rx light 
would be off and there were no lights blinking. To get back online I had 
to power cycle the modem.

The other strange symptom was that I was getting strange lease times on 
the IP address.  In the beginning the lease time was 7 days. When the 
problems started, my lease times were down to 12 to 18 hours or even 
less. One time I was getting a lease time where the expiry on the IP was 
the time at which I renewed the IP.

Eventually, I was often losing the connection around every 15 minutes to 
half an hour. Occasionally I would lose it after 10 minutes. The first 
time I had someone from Rogers check things out, they didn't do very 
much and did not replace the modem. I was telling them I suspected a bad 
modem. The second time I had someone from Rogers come to check things 
out, there were two people at the door with a new modem in a box. Those 
two people said that when they hear of problems and know that a TJ615 is 
involved they swap the modem.

I now have a Motorola SurfBoard 5100 and have had no further problems. 
My top (download) speed with the TJ615 was around 128kB/s (I don't 
remember the exact number). Right after getting the 5100 modem I was 
seeing speeds as high as 330kB/s. More recently I have often reached 
download speeds of 350kB/s.

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