Current Events > Router problem. Halp!

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I have comcast, I know...terrible. Thought my internet was not performing at 100% speed, so I power cycled it and hit the reset button on the back. Since then, it has been randomly losing connection off and on. Like I got back to back download speeds of 80 and 2. I can't get into any games because my connection always times out.

Wat do?
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are you using their router
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It's like a router/modem combo
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they suck - i once had a comcast guy come here to fix one and he basically just said "yeah you want your own not these"

you probably have a short somewhere
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This is just what a couple comcast guys told me to do. I saw them at neighbor's place and asked them. They said I should be receiving 75m and I was getting like 25. They told me to just power cycle it. So I did that lol. Now it's all screwy!
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It wasn't losing connection to the internet before though. Just a small bit of lag in games. I would gladly take that over how it's acting now simply after I unplugged and plugged the thing and reset it...
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try power cycling again, that usually fixes it
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Bok_Choi posted...

you probably have a short somewhere

What do you mean exactly by that? The cable has a short?
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They throttled your speeds
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no, in the modem circuitry
an electrical short in one of mine in the past caused similar issues - it works fine and then goes out intermittently
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Oh my god are you kidding me?
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I just power cycled it before bed and I'm hoping for the best. That is such a major pain in the ass honestly lol because I probably don't have time for them to come out until like Tuesday
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TBH you're gonna have to find some way to invest in a better router/modem set
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The original comcast guy who set it up told me to get my own. So I did. It cost a fortune. The guy who came to install it was like "I don't know why he told you that. Return those, save yourself some money, and get our device. It'll save you a lot of money." Especially since I'm in a one bedroom place with everything that needs access to the router is in like a 10 foot radius to it. So he explained that I should just get their's because the expensive stuff would be a waste in the tiny place I'm living in. So I did (and bought myself a new couch with the money I saved. Haha), and honestly the internet wasn't working bad at all. Maybe the occasional lag here and there. But here I go being a perfectionist and expecting more lol. So I reset everything and look at what happens... :(
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LOL he fucking scammed you

their equipment is TERRIBLE

You really want your own.
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But honestly how did he scam me though? I saved like $200
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I get that it's not quite as good, which is what I would expect from something that costs $200 less. IMO, a scam involves losing money lol.
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LilTic71190 posted...

It's like a router/modem combo

oh those are the worst. buy your own router.
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You rent it, you don't buy it from them (the comcast modems)
They've steadily been charging you like 10 bucks a month for it - over time you'd spend more on it than the initial $200

and if you're not renting it then well i guess you're not getting your moneys worth because you could have avoided all of this trouble for spending more at first
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Well, the problem fixed itself the next day *knock on wood* weird.
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Yeah you throw their shit into bridge mode and put a decent router behind it to handle everything.
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