[colug-432] Comcast and connectivity alternatives

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I live in Delaware and have TW. I had this intermittent issue a few years ago. TW finally resolved it. They replaced
the cable connectors on the end of the cable in the pedestal in my yard. Can they be that sensitive? Odd!

Steve

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 11:33:56PM -0500, 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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