[E-mail] Someone else's Comcast email in MY account - help, please
Besides this email being spam and - IMO - pornographic in nature, could someone help me understand why it wound up in MY inbox? This particular email account is one of my secondary ones but the "to" in...
View Article[E-mail] Do I lose my comcast.net address after the trans to Greatland?
I am one of the "lucky" ones who will be shuffled off to Greatland Connections after the big merger is completed. Will I still be able to access my @Comcast.net email address post merger or will I have...
View Article[Connectivity] Some kind of major outage/wire cut in San Jose area?
I'm in El Dorado Hills and my connection isn't accessible. Traceroutes I've been able to run show it dying in San Jose or other places on Comcast's ibone. Was there a fiber cut or some major outage...
View Article[Connectivity] Moto SB6141 woes (T3/T4 error, reboot and sluggish)
I current have a Comcast provided UBee (DOCSIS 3.0) and my own SB6141. I had the SB6141 installed for a few months and the performance of the modem went from working to working sometimes. A peek at the...
View Article[Connectivity] Modem Down
Hello, I woke up this morning with not connectivity from my SB6120. I rebooted it and it came back online. Throughout the day, I experienced very slow speeds and about 20% packet loss. As it is now, my...
View Article[Connectivity] Can anyone identify this Comcast fiber node?
A few weeks ago I happened to spot the Comcast node serving our neighborhood, and took some quick photos of it-- this was from a so-so cellphone camera, but hopefully they're recognizable:...
View ArticleAt work pics.... Yes I am a professional!!!
A few have expressed interest in some of my at work pics. I have been slacking as of late, as the work we are doing is more proactive and less reactive, so its a little more rare to come across the WTF...
View Article[Equip] More Approved Modems: Netgear CM500 / SMC D3CM1604 16x4 Channels
If anyone has any information about these modems, please post. They both seem to be modem only devices and I am assuming they're both 16x4. The SMC doesn't seem to be the V model which supports voice....
View Article[Signals] sb6183
Wow, my SNR is the best I've ever seen...or this modem is wacky. I'm not complaining, this modem is great speed-wise. The 16 channels keeps my speeds constant, at least on speedtests. :p
View ArticleWeb pages freeze for several seconds
Was unable to login to my account so I have to post anonymously. Anyways, I have been problems with web pages freezing for the past month or two. At random times during the day while I'm surfing the...
View Article[WiFi] Hotspot
tm722GCT modem. Does that broadcast a hotspot? If so how do I disable it? I purposely switched to this modem as I have a router for home wireless.
View Article[Connectivity] Non-optimal IP Routing from Washington DC
Washington DC customer here and I've noticed that my data to other networks that used to go to an exchange point in Ashburn VA are now going all the way up to NYC before getting down there. Anyone know...
View Article[Business] IP address from hundreds of miles away
This doesn't negatively affect me too much except for sites that like to guess my location (weather, etc) are getting it horrendously wrong. I am more curious if anyone else has seen this or if there...
View Article[Connectivity] Modem constantly dropping internet connection - Comcast
Hello, I'm not sure if I"m posting this in the right section or not, but I figured networking was the best way to go until somebody adjusts otherwise. Normally, I would consider myself a solid...
View Article[Business] SMC 3DG becomes unreliable until I reboot it
Has anyone else seen this behavior? Network goes down and up and down and up for several minutes at a time, and continues this way until I reboot the router. Then it's fine for a couple of days until...
View Article[Bill] Promo problems
I was put on a 2 year promo for Blast for $45.70 a month, and I just checked my statement and it says I am being billed for $66.95. Why is it showing $66.95 background info: back in Feb of 2013 I was...
View Article[Connectivity] T3 timeouts cold weather related ?
Sorry if this is a 'dumb' question, but are T3 timeouts, brief loss of connectivity and dropping downstream SNR related to arctic temperatures? Right now it's about -5F (windchills are about -21F)....
View Article[Signals] Power Levels
So I was checking my Power Levels on my Modem today since I have been having reboots from my modem more recently. My mid Upstream Power level is 50 and I have been told that is not good, should I call...
View Article[Merger] Is there any decent data on who Comcast will drop/spin off?
Sorry if I missed it but is there a map or something that shows the potential customers that will be spun off if/when Comcast gets the merger thru? I have heard/read Florida but was not sure. I am in...
View ArticleDid anybody just experience a massive weird outage?
Around 3:30am for around half hour it seemed like half of the internet was broken. Could reach some sites and not others. Traceroutes to the broken sites were failing and timing out which leads me to...
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