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Well, here we go boys and girls.
I have to have Comcast for two months while Verizon finishes putting in Fios. I am not happy about it. The range they gave me was 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM with me receiving a call 15 minutes before the tech would arrive. I am now 10 minutes away from work. Excellent. I received a phone call at 11:15 stating that the tech was at my door and no one was answering. Great. As I'm leaving work (taking my lunch to get this set up) I call Comcast to get them to contact the tech and have him stay there. I am 10 minutes away. I get to my address and the tech had left, I am on hold at this point. I get a phone call from a number I don't know and pick up. It's the tech. He's turning around and will be at my place in 5 minutes. Great. Comcast then gets back on the phone with me to tell me that the tech will not be able to make it there until 1:00 PM, hes pulling up to my place at this point. I explained this and they said "okay". I asked the tech if he was a contractor and he said no, hes a Comcast employee. Interesting. We go into my apartment and the tech is setting everything up, he tested the signal strength and it was good. He asks me to test the wireless with my phone. Internet not working. I checked my PC which is wired, no internet. I run an ipconfig and it's giving back a 169 IP. This is after the config dialogue had already popped up. I explained that the router's DHCP was most likely not working. The tech called Comcast 3 times and could not get this working. Comcast then said they "have an outage in my area". No. I said hold on for 2 minutes. I set my static IP to 10.0.0.10 knowing the default is 10.0.0.1 for the router. I now have access to the internet, which I showed the tech. "If a static IP address works there is no outage in my area". I then went into the router and saw that an IP Address range was set from 10.0.0.2 to 192.168.1.254 WTH? I checked the port forwarding rules and I see entries. Comcast did not factory reset this router and someone probably returned this because they screwed up the ip ranges and didn't know how to fix it. The tech is sitting there not knowing what to do this entire time. I then reset the router and went through the install process again, everything worked perfectly fine.
tl;dr Comcast is shit
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@wirestyle22 The moral of the story. Don't use modems or routers provided by your ISP. Get your own... it is cheaper and much easier to configure.
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@coliver said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@wirestyle22 The moral of the story. Don't use modems or routers provided by your ISP. Get your own... it is cheaper and much easier to configure.
I have an ERX it's just the point
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@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@coliver said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@wirestyle22 The moral of the story. Don't use modems or routers provided by your ISP. Get your own... it is cheaper and much easier to configure.
I have an ERX it's just the point
Get your own modem. You can get them for 100-200$.
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@coliver said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@coliver said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@wirestyle22 The moral of the story. Don't use modems or routers provided by your ISP. Get your own... it is cheaper and much easier to configure.
I have an ERX it's just the point
Get your own modem. You can get them for 100-200$.
Yeah, I might do that in the near future
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@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@coliver said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@coliver said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@wirestyle22 The moral of the story. Don't use modems or routers provided by your ISP. Get your own... it is cheaper and much easier to configure.
I have an ERX it's just the point
Get your own modem. You can get them for 100-200$.
Yeah, I might do that in the near future
Was self install not an option?
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@coliver said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@coliver said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@wirestyle22 The moral of the story. Don't use modems or routers provided by your ISP. Get your own... it is cheaper and much easier to configure.
I have an ERX it's just the point
Get your own modem. You can get them for 100-200$.
If he was going to be using the connection for more than 2-4 months, then yes.
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@JaredBusch why. . . . why Japan. . . why. . .
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@Dashrender said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@coliver said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@coliver said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@wirestyle22 The moral of the story. Don't use modems or routers provided by your ISP. Get your own... it is cheaper and much easier to configure.
I have an ERX it's just the point
Get your own modem. You can get them for 100-200$.
Yeah, I might do that in the near future
Was self install not an option?
They never gave me the option but I didn't ask for it either. I was preoccupied at work when I called to set it up
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If there was a cat cafe near me i would be there a lot.
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@momurda said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
If there was a cat cafe near me i would be there a lot.
Kitties!
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@RojoLoco said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@momurda said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
If there was a cat cafe near me i would be there a lot.
Kitties!https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/de/c9/b1/dec9b1235942421e161beb27e2df3b4d.jpg
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I actually saw this in OK this week.
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@mlnews said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
Hey L.A. County: People don't know the definition of molest anymore, you might want to change that sign/county code.
