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Is it fixed now? Dammit!

Written by Arnan on February 7, 2010 – 6:03 pm

Today, our modem signal again crapped it’s pants.
And i’ve had enough, so i went down there to replace the modem and some cables.

Turns out the spare modem i “borrowed” from our previous ISP doesn’t work with this one. It gets the signal and stuff right but doesn’t actually connect. I bet they locked the Mac address or something. Anyway, without a spoofing option to try that out i moved back to the original modem.

Next i swapped out all cabling. Some were a bit knackered, not sure how that happened. And the Ethernet cable promptly was stuck in it’s port. I had to pull hard to get it loose and in that process break the ethernet port on the router. Luckily no contacts were shorted just the locking clip broke off. So i can just use another port on the modem/router, it’s not mine so no need to replace it.

Let’s see how this works, all coax cabling is now replaced, new ethernet from the modem to the Airport… The modem shows a better signal/noise ratio. But i’m not sure if that was the problem. We’ll see.

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