High Speed Internet and Modems and stuff

[James Knott]

Joseph Kubik wrote:
> I had rogers high speed cable using the rogers provided motarola cable modem.
> The setup went like this: cable guy showed up and setup the modem.
> I plugged my laptop running suse linux into the modem via ethernet.
> I rebooted.
> I opened firefox and used the internet.
> 
> 1 month later:
> I had TERRIBLE problems with the modem losing signal strength.  After
> 10+days  of troubleshooting dealing with cable techs....
> The neighbor had spliced my cable with a rat shack splitter and the
> sigle was too weak.
> All told, Rogers was easy to use, but not reliable enough for me.

What's that???  Are you saying that your neighbour (illegally?) tapped 
into your line and because of that, Rogers is unreliable???  I've been 
with them for over 5 years, with virtually no connection problems.
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