[lug] Qwest Basic service w/ single static IP

[D. Stimits]

Lee Woodworth wrote:
> Collins Richey wrote:
> 
>> On 9/16/05, Lee Woodworth <blug-mail at duboulder.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Our experience has been that qwest DSL and comcast cable service at 
>>> client
>>> sites will routinely go out and require a power cycle on the modem. 
>>
>>
>>
>> I must live in La-La land (SE Aurora). I've used Comcast (<--ATT
>> <-- at home) for more years than I can remember, and I can count on the
>> fingers of one hand (without using all the fingers) the number of
>> outages requiring a modem reset in that period of time. Comcast, in my
>> experience, is like the Everready Bunny. What's the possibility of
>> flaky modems?
> 
> Possible. But 4 different brands: Cisco, Actiontec, Dlink, Linksys.
> 8+ different locations: Boulder (2), Louisville, Eldorado Springs,
> Boulder Heights, Downtown Denver, Ken Caryl (2), Longmont. I have
> read that the lockups might be related to line/cable quality.

When comcast bought out the AT&T lines, the lines were fairly new in 
parts of the area, but good quality...rated to 600 MHz. Comcast, in its 
wisdom, decided to use 1000 MHz instead of the 600 it originally 
operated at, and not upgrade equipment. Things like connectors suddenly 
had huge dB losses, and every time temperature or humidity changed too 
much, it got bad fast. By now there have been so many service calls that 
it runs pretty much flawlessly, so all is good again. It no longer burps 
each time weather changes or when noise sources light up.

D. Stimits, stimits AT comcast DOT net