So, I was at home a few nights ago. All of the family was asleep and I was pokin' around on the web. I noticed that my connection was slow -
Google.com timed out, then couldn't find the DNS entry. I could get to the
BBS on my LAN, so it was mostly working. I tried rebooting my powerline adapters, the usual cause of net.problems, and still nothing. I wanted to
see if I could get to my border router, and entered its address into my browser. Instead, I got an HTTP auth box instead of my DD-WRT status page.
I entered ADMIN/PASSWORD, and was greeted with my next-door neighbor's
router config page!

Now, mind you, I'm connected via a powerline ethernet line to *my* router,
so there's no possibility of jumping on their wireless, which was password protected.

I thought about being a good neighbor and turning on parental controls in
case any of them decide to have kids, but thought better of it.

I rebooted my cable modem and all was well.

Odd.




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So, I was at home a few nights ago. All of the family was asleep and I
was pokin' around on the web. I noticed that my connection was slow - Google.com timed out, then couldn't find the DNS entry. I could get to
the BBS on my LAN, so it was mostly working. I tried rebooting my powerline adapters, the usual cause of net.problems, and still nothing. I wanted to see if I could get to my border router, and entered its address into my browser. Instead, I got an HTTP auth box instead of my DD-WRT status page. I entered ADMIN/PASSWORD, and was greeted with my next-door neighbor's router config page!

Comcast is ALWAYS wierd.



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Re: Comcast weirdness
By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Sun Dec 16 2018 09:46 am

BBS on my LAN, so it was mostly working. I tried rebooting my powerline adapters, the usual cause of net.problems, and still nothing. I wanted to

I've been using powerline ethernet adapters too, but recently I heard about MoCa ethernet adapters, which are ethernet adapters that work with cable (coax) outlets rather than power outlets. I've heard those are much more realiable and faster than powerline ethernet adapters, since coax was made for data. If your house has coax outlets in convenient places, it may be worth switching to to MoCa ethernet adapters. I've heard a good model is the Motorola mm1000 (there's also a 2-pack called the mm1002).

My house has coax, but I haven't tried buying MoCa adapters yet.. I have some fairly good PCI Express wifi adapters in my PCs which I use when my powerline ethernet adapters get disconnected. I have my BBS machine just use wifi all the time in case the powerline ethernet adatpers get disconnected, as the wifi seems to be more reliable (even if it's not quite as fast).

Nightfox

Nightfox wrote:

Re: Comcast weirdness
By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Sun Dec 16 2018 09:46 am

I've been using powerline ethernet adapters too, but recently I heard about MoCa ethernet adapters, which are ethernet adapters that work with cable

(coax)

outlets rather than power outlets. I've heard those are much more realiable and faster than powerline ethernet adapters, since coax was made for data.

If

your house has coax outlets in convenient places, it may be worth switching

to

to MoCa ethernet adapters. I've heard a good model is the Motorola mm1000 (there's also a 2-pack called the mm1002).

I'd give MoCa a try but I don't like coffee ;)
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Re: Re: Comcast weirdness
By: Nelgin to Nightfox on Tue Dec 25 2018 11:56 pm

I've been using powerline ethernet adapters too, but recently I heard
about MoCa ethernet adapters, which are ethernet adapters that work
with cable

(coax)

I'd give MoCa a try but I don't like coffee ;)

I guess you don't like the Java programming language either? ;)

Nightfox

Nightfox wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

I've been using powerline ethernet adapters too, but recently I heard about MoCa ethernet adapters, which are ethernet adapters that work
with cable (coax) outlets rather than power outlets. I've heard those
are much more realiable and faster than powerline ethernet adapters,

Apparently that's what Comcast uses to communicate between your main
DVR and those little satellite DVRs that share the recordings on the
main DVR. Rumor on the net has it that it might not be possible to
have their Moca network working with another network on the same
cable, and there's not much information on adding other devices to
Comcast Moca devices. Would be nice, though.


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Re: Re: Comcast weirdness
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Tue Dec 25 2018 01:20 pm

I've been using powerline ethernet adapters too, but recently I
heard about MoCa ethernet adapters, which are ethernet adapters that
work with cable (coax) outlets rather than power outlets. I've

Apparently that's what Comcast uses to communicate between your main
DVR and those little satellite DVRs that share the recordings on the
main DVR. Rumor on the net has it that it might not be possible to
have their Moca network working with another network on the same
cable, and there's not much information on adding other devices to
Comcast Moca devices. Would be nice, though.

I was wondering about that. If you have cable internet/TV, then I imagine that may be an issue. But if use another type of internet (such as DSL, Fios, etc.) and don't have cable TV, then I don't think it would be a problem.

Nightfox

Re: Re: Comcast weirdness
By: Nightfox to Nelgin on Wed Dec 26 2018 01:40 pm

I'd give MoCa a try but I don't like coffee ;)

I guess you don't like the Java programming language either? ;)

I hate Java and everything to do with it. It's a lazy person's C :) Learn to write portable code lol.
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Re: Re: Comcast weirdness
By: Nelgin to Nightfox on Tue Feb 26 2019 11:14 am

I guess you don't like the Java programming language either? ;)

I hate Java and everything to do with it. It's a lazy person's C :) Learn to write portable code lol.

Well Java is portable, probably more so than C because Java's runtime runs on multiple platforms. You can often take the same compiled Java binaries and run them anywhere there is a Java runtime. In C, you have to specifically compile it for each different platform, and also in C code, you have to take specific care to make your C code portable - You have to be careful of OS-specific APIs you use if you want your C program to build and run on multiple platforms. Often it means creating a way to use one API or the other, depending on which OS you're compiling it for, which is something you don't have to do with Java.

Nightfox

I echo everything you say here. I will also add for the other gentleman is
the issue of C with other CPU architectures. As a Linux guy, this is something that I am seeing more and more with the rise of ARM devices running Linux distros. When I compile my C program on my Intel X86-64 laptop, I can't use that binary for my Raspberry Pi. I would have to recompile it on the RPI or cross compile it. C isn't very portable.

This is why many Linux distros need to have separate ISOs and distros for
other architectures.

I am not bashing C. I am actually teaching myself C because I have a huge respect for it and it is used prominently in the Linux kernal and many of the programs used in the distros.

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Re: Comcast weirdness
By: SwordofKas to Nightfox on Mon Apr 01 2019 10:57 am

I echo everything you say here. I will also add for the other gentleman is

It would be helpful to quote the part of the message you're replying to, to make it easier to follow the conversation. I haven't seen this thread in a while, so I don't remember what I said here.

Nightfox

Re: Comcast weirdness
By: SwordofKas to Nightfox on Mon Apr 01 2019 10:57 am

something that I am seeing more and more with the rise of ARM devices running Linux distros. When I compile my C program on my Intel X86-64 laptop, I can't use that binary for my Raspberry Pi. I would have to recompile it on the RPI or cross compile it. C isn't very portable.

C is very portable - you'd need to *re-write* the program for different architectures back in the bad old days. The face that C was portable by recompiling for different platforms was a big selling point.
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