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By Perry, 3 years and 2 months ago

Connection restored

Today I took my old RCA modem back to Comcast and exchanged it for a new one, a Terayon modem, and when I came home and installed it using the installation software, it would not connect. So I called the tech support line and was told that it had to be provisioned before I would be able to use it. We attempted to do that via their standard process, but that didn't work. Therefore I had to wait for the issue to be escalated and provisioned remotely. I left the modem on and walked away to watch the football game.

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By Perry, 3 years and 2 months ago

Flaky Internet Connection

Since Thursday, the 1st, my connection to the Internet (Comcast) has been erratic. It appears that activities that don't place too much demand on the connection usually work, but if I call upon the service to do something that places a sustained load on the system, then the connection drops for a minute or two and then reconnects after «getting its breath.» Therefore I've been unable to upload the podcast that Juan Gutierrez and I did on Thursday, though I've tried at least 10 times to do so, and I can't sustain a conversation with Skype because of the connection dropping. Even surfing to different web sites causes the connection to drop. Since I have my email program set to check for new mail every 10 minutes and since it only checks 3 accounts, that doesn't seem to cause the connection to drop but anything that requires sustained use does. In fact, I'm not sure this post will be successfully sent to Blogger, but I'll soon find out.

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  • Cast in a new role:
    • David Steele: Perry: Last week when I was in Las Vegas I had the opportunity to see your house. It is gorgeous! I understand it is on the National Register of Historic Places and the fact you can walk to work each day to our business incubator on campus will be wonderful. I have absolutely fallen...
    • Jeff Nelson: Wow!!! I am tickled to death about this opportunity that has come your way at this time in your I really should be helping you with all of the particulars that go along with such a move, but find myself trying to keep up with the train of my life as it moves down...
    • Perry: Thank you, Tom. I'd welcome your visit if it works out.
    • Tom Wright: Perry: Didn't realize it was for 2 years--which doubles my chances I will get out there to see you. My friend Steve lives in Santa Fe and has extended an invite, so things are looking very New Mexico-ey for the future. Best of luck on this and everything.
    • Perry: Thank you, everyone, for your good wishes. In particular, to you Tish about the award you've given me, I can only quote Jack Benny who said, "I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either." ;-) Also thanks for pointing out the error you get when posting...
    • Tish: Perry, I'm getting a long list of code errors when commenting. You may want to check that out.
    • Tish: Congratulations, Perry! I hope everything goes well for you! :) Btw, I have presented you with a very well deserved award over on my blog. :)
  • Gutsy Gibbon Live CD boot problem:
    • Lee Collier: I know this is an old thread, came up in google as I'm searching for an answer to an Ubuntu boot problem. Just had to mention: Perry - the reason that Gutsy is detecting your sound card in VMware but not running natively is that, as far as I know, VMware presents a very...

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