Thanks for the story Peter, It raises a question or two that someone might want to comment on. But before I ask, in the interest of truth and clarity I have to acknowledge my biases and mention a couple of things that embarrass me. First is the fact I am by nature strongly predisposed to distrust the motives and pronouncements of just about any large corporate institution such as Comcast, sight unseen. Which might be to say that often my default attitude is that I'm perfectly capable of providing my own arrogance and stupidity, so I don't think I need anyone else's, thank you very much. I try hard not to be that way but it gets me into trouble more often than it should. Generally, the result is some humiliating error of miss-attribution. Recently I've had a couple of these episodes with water pipes and a sync cable that I was righteously convinced were in perfect working order. It does sometimes happen that not all after-market products are true functional equivalents. Several years ago I had lower-than-expected download speeds. I figured it was a case of false representation and deceptive advertising by Comcast, but it turned out be a bad crimp on the co-axial cable upstream of the router. One question I have is about the 'patch cable' and 'non-patch cable' you mention below. From looking into my experience with the bad sync cable, I'm given to understand that some of these actually incorporate internal electronics in addition to mere incidental differences in resistance and manufacture. Is something similar what you mean by distinguishing 'patch cable' from 'non-patch cable'? Comcast can "push" firmware to *your* router? Tom in Albuquerque On 3/26/19 10:57 AM, Peter Reed wrote:
On Sun, 24 Mar 2019 20:57:53 -0600 Tom Ashcraft <trailerdog234@comcast.net> wrote:
Dear NMGLUGers et al,
Some of you may remember my consternation and annoyance over that situation I had where I could no longer receive email with any Linux desktop client, most notably Thunderbird, from Comcast imap servers We here in ABQ had a huge update to the Comcast network which took down my home network. I own all my own equipment including the modem. Having purchased the modem and router I have gained complete control of my internal network (multiple routers and other devices). Having said that whatever they did took my internal network down and in fact it was not untill today I figured out that the patch cable from my main router to the modem was the problem. A new non-patch cable fixed the problem and I can now interface with my router. Took days to figure this out. There was new firmware pushed to my modem by Comcrap but I have no control over that. Still a mystery to what happend
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