new cable modem - and problems

[Peter L. Peres]

On Sat, 25 Sep 2004, Matt Cahill wrote:

> On September 25, 2004 02:45 pm, Peter L. Peres wrote:
>> Imho you're not done yet. Try to switch back to the ethernet cable. See if
>> the ether cable is twisted (it should be straight through but check your
>> modem docs). The 'solid' light simply means the connection is saturated.
>> This is not good imho. It should flicker indicating some spare time on
>> the link. For me switching from USB to ethernet on a Terayon cable modem
>> jumped the speed from 75k to 100k (long time average). And the light
>> flickers, it's not steady on. Maybe your modem is different.
>
>
>  Actually, I wasn't being literal when I said the light was "more solid".  It
> still flickers.  It's just that the signal certainly seems stronger than
> before (solid=stronger).  Sorry for the confusion.

In this case light off as much as possible *and* high bandwidth indicated 
by transfer speed gauge is good (both of these together).

Peter
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