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Is it just me or is PBW down?

Caius

It looks like it's down. I can't get to it till later this evening to check it.

Thanks for the info Geo.

Caius

Just a status report that it still is down.

It went up briefly, then went kerSPLAT.

The cable connection is being very spotty today. I've reset it again. Hopefully it will stay up this time.

and up, and down, and up, and down again...

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geoschmo said:
The cable connection is being very spotty today. I've reset it again. Hopefully it will stay up this time.

Do you have unlimited Bandwith? Those SeV files get huge!

I don't think many (if any) broadband ISPs in the US do monthly limited bandwidth for residential or small business accounts. Connections are just limited by per second rates (though maybe with some sort of excessive usage flags).

I don't think it's a bandwith limit. First of all the problems been intermittant for really over a year if I think about it. Sometimes daily, sometimes a couple times a week it will lock up. When it locks up I merely cycle power to the cable modem or log into the cable modem's admin page and reset it. When it locks up I can typically still reach the modem from within my Lan, and I can see the PBW server, so I figure my lan is fine. It's just not communicating with the internet. The lights on the cable modem are all on like normal.

If it were a bandwith limit I presume cycling power to the modem wouldn't fix it. Also I'm not getting any notices from the isp and I assume I would if they were nerfing my connection. In fact I contacted the isp last year about it, but they weren't a lot of help. But they didn't mention me exceding the bandwith limit, if there is one.

I'm guessing it's either the modem is getting old and wearing out, or the cable is noisy. Probably the second one. Unfortunatly the isp is not the same as the cable company, they just use the line. So trying to get a problem like this fixed ends up being a bunch of finger pointing. That's the biggest reason I've just tolerated it for so long. It's only recently it's gotten to be so frequent that it's a real headache.