[colug-432] Comcast and connectivity alternatives

[Dan Kaiser]

I live in a rural area where TW adopted older Delphi cables (this is what a
tech told me) and about 3-4 times a year we lose network but not cable.

I call in the outage and _every_ time they tell me it is an issue with my
modem.  The first few times they insisted on sending a standard tech out
who would invariably find that the issue was the signal level at the pole
needed to be calibrated, which requires a special tech.

Now, when the temp changes and we lose connection I call the neighbors to
confirm theirs is out too and we ask call to let them know. They still want
me to reboot my modem... By now we know to tell them no, just send a tech
to check the signals at the poles. When we all call in close succession it
seems they get the message.
On Feb 13, 2014 11:35 PM, <michael at yanovich.net> wrote:

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> On 02/13/2014 11:24 PM, Bill Baker wrote:
> > There may be a problem with the modem, but I'm pretty sure it has to do
> > with the levels going to the modem, which is why I think a field tech
> > would be a better option.  When did you call them last?  Sometimes a
> > problem goes away then comes back.  I run an SSH server over my TWC
> > connection and it stays connected all day unless something happens to
> > the server.
>
> If I remember correctly, I last spoke with them back in October or
> November.
>
> I haven't had it happen in a week (crosses fingers), I've noticed it tends
> to
> be more likely to happen when I have more network activity (in terms of
> bandwidth, like if I'm downloading or uploading a lot from one of my remote
> servers).
>
>
> Hm, what I do with SSH is something like this:
>
> alias mrsa='ssh -2 -fXND 127.0.0.1:12345 my_remote_server_alias'
>
> and then I just run 'mrsa' or whatever I really set it as and it runs a
> SOCKS proxy on localhost that is constantly connected to my remote server
> without having to leave a terminal open. This is great for some
> applications
> that I need to have proxied over to specific machines to access stuff
> locally.
>
>
> - --
> Michael Yanovich
>
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