Adelphia Powerlink

Joshua R. Altemoos joshua at gnu-linux.net
Thu Mar 11 07:26:36 EST 2004


For Buffalo Chiacgo Street and for the rest of Erie Contuny it is Indian Church 
Road in Lackwanna (not 100% sure if it is for the rest or not but this is where 
they have the billing come from)

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Have A Good Day
Joshua R. Altemoos
joshua at gnu-linux.net


Quoting "Timothy J. Finucane" <speljamr at speljamr.com>:

> How do I convince Adelphia if I think it is the modem? Their tech
> support seems less than helpful. Do they have a place you can go to and
> just exchange the modem?
> 
> Tim Finucane
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 10:26, Cyber Source wrote:
> > just to chime in here, i haven't followed this thread that close but a
> > couple of weeks ago i did a network job in someones house. Long story
> > short, the network connection kept dropping, the router would not keep
> > an address from the cable modem.
> > 1. replaced the brand new router, wasnt it.
> > 2. moved the modem so that the cable coming into the house ran first
> > into a splitter, then a 3' patch coax cable right into the modem, then
> > cat5 from there, wasnt it.
> > 3. problem worsened at night but still was dropping address, never to
> > the public side though.
> > 4. never thought that it would have been the cable modem itself but i
> > replaced that and that was it. just exchanged it at adelphia. it seems
> > that the internal workings of the modem were failing and kept dropping
> > the address to the cat5 side of the cable modem but never would lose
> > the public side.
> > This drove me nuts for a couple of days, cause who would suspect the
> > cable modem to be bad? The dreaded "it worked before" kept being
> > voiced. I think when i added other pc's to an already weak link, it
> > just wasnt enough anymore.
> > 
> > Golden Rule for troubleshooting- Rule out nothing!
> > 
> > Dave Andruczyk wrote:
> > > --- "Timothy J. Finucane" <speljamr at speljamr.com> wrote:
> > >   
> > > > Of the people out hereusing Adelphia, has anyone been experiencing
> > > > problems between their router and Adelphia?
> > > > 
> > > > I have a Linksys BEFSR41 v.2 Cable/DSL Router and it will not renew
> > > > it's
> > > > DHCP settings from the Cable modem. Is it possible my router is
> > > > foobar?
> > > > Or are there known changes to the Adelphia setup that would cause a
> > > > problem for the router?
> > > >     
> > > I've had that issue in the past.  The solution was to unplug the router
> > > from the cable modem until the cable modem was COMPLETELY ready.  On
> > > mine if the modem's "online" light is flashing and the router is on,
> > > the router gets an off-net address (192.168.x.y) address instead of the
> > > normal 24.x.y.z addresses.  
> > > 
> > > Also if you switch between devices plugged into the cable modem (i.e.
> > > unplug the router and plug the PC in directly), the cable modem MUST be
> > > power cycled as only 1 MAC address (every netwrok card has a unique MAC
> > > address) will be allowed to bridge traffice onto adelphia's LAN. If you
> > > unplug your router and plug your PC directly to the modem is should NOT
> > > work without power cycling the modem. 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > =====
> > > Dave J. Andruczyk
> > > 
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