Ahh, the joys of @Home

Jeff Hengesbach jeffh@smallevolution.com
Mon, 15 Oct 2001 15:04:19 -0000


A co-worker of mine who lives in the Okemos/Hasslet area has been offline
since the Thursday timeframe you mentioned.  

Jeff H

Edward Glowacki <glowack2@msu.edu> said:

> Well, they hooked up my cable modem on Friday morning.  The guy
> checked out my signal levels, said that everything was good, and
> that my cable modem should come up in a little while (apparently
> something still had to be done on the back end of the service).
> As evidenced by the fact that I didn't send any spiffy emails to
> the LUG list over the weekend exclaiming my joy, the cable modem
> has yet to function properly.  I called tech support on Friday and
> they said there was a problem in my area and that they were working
> on it (though he did check to make sure everything was set up
> properly since I was a new customer).  The problem apparently
> started around 5:30 on Thursday night.  3 1/2 days later (3 days
> for me), the problem still exists?  I suspect that when I get home
> tonight, the lights will still be blinking, trying to get a signal.
> So either it's a very tough problem to fix, or I've got a DOA cable
> modem, or they somehow borked my setup.  Anyone else on the northeast
> side of Lansing experiencing @Home outtages?
> 
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