... the best I can do is a quick post about a balky modem.
We were having intermittent Internet outages seemingly centered around our Wi-Fi so I, in all my networkery, bought a Netgear Orbi Wi-Fi system. It's a mesh network which will allow our vast Catican Compound, all 7500 square feet of it, to be covered with generous amounts of mental-illness-causing* 2.4 GHz radiation. What fun!
It didn't work. I then decided the problem might be the modem so I bought a replacement Netgear modem and plugged it in properly. Easy-peasy, right?
Wrong. After several attempts and a few calls to Spectrum, it was determined that the new Netgear modem I had bought was incompatible with Spectrum's signals. They wanted the hip, modern, cool-o DOCSIS 3.1 and my modem was back in Squaresville, running DOCSIS 3.0.
Back to Beast Buy to replace the 3.0 toad and get a snazzy 3.1 model. Voila! It works!
I replaced a modem and it only took about 4 hours of work.
I feel like Job.
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| Oh Lord, my God, why dost thou forsake me and hand me over to these preposterous Internet protocols and specifications? I preferred the boils and carbuncles! Take my cattle and kine, but leave me my high-speed Internet! |
* - No, I don't believe in that nonsense.
1 comment:
I guess I don't know for sure, but I thought the difference between 3.0 and 3.1 was just the speed it could run. I have 600 Mb service from Spectrum and am just fine with a 3.0 modem.
I naively thought that if you had a faster line provided than the modem can handle, it would negotiate down to the best speed the modem can handle. You know, like old POTS modems did.
I also have a mesh system (amazon eero). Because my house was built in the '50s, and when the PO strung coax everywhere, they didn't take it to what we use as the office; I've strung an ethernet cable from the main mesh router, to the node in my office. It made a big difference in speed, even though the last 8 feet is wifi. I do have my ESXi server, NAS, and VPN connected with CAT6.
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