Sunday June 13, 2004 More Adventures in Home Networking: It's Alive!!!
Friday morning came, and the Comcast guy showed up within his appointment window (pleasant surprise #1). He went down stairs to look at the modem. We discuss what I had done to get it to work so far. He then went along and took care of the problem. There was indeed a filter on the line. As soon at the filter was removed, the cable modem got a lock (pleasant surprise #2).
A good thing with having a cable tech coming to your house for the install is that he is able to do an inspection of the cable and correct any issue that might arrise. He installed a new splitter on my line (yes, I still have the splitter I originally bought. It would have done just fine, but hey! why argue with the cable guy?) and a new grounding block. So now, not only do I have cable modem broadband, I also have clearer cable tv too!
I had to take care of some business on Friday before leaving for the Western Slopes, so I didn't really had a chance to migrate my home network over to the comcast connection. This was one of the first things that I did once we came back. After some agravation with my WAP54G, I managed to get it all working and migrated all of my services over to the new correction.
I must say something about Comcast High Speed Internet: it is FAST! I have measured speeds up to 5-6 times faster than my previous ISP. I was most impressed (pleasant surprise #3). Even things like reading mail over the VPN and downloading files was much, much faster. It will be a pleasant experience I am sure.
-- Fred ( Jun 13 2004, 11:36:05 PM MDT ) Permalink