Unplugged

GF and I finally moved into our new home on Thursday. Friday afternoon I managed to get “the data center” online for a while only to discover that my router was acting flakey and Comcast had changed their setup program and now they need to “do something” to my cable modem to make it cooperate with their system (instead of just registering it’s mac address & serial number).

Saturday morning GF informs me that our bedroom would work better if it was where the office is and the office would work better where the bedroom is. Unfortunately, I agreed. So last night we swapped out the furniture, I ran another cable outlet and again assembled our little “data center” (four computers, an 8 port router, a print server, 2 monitors, a KVM switch, cable modem and extra lan cable for GF’s work laptop). Mission control would be jealous.

The router’s flakey-ness turned out to be the technician’s (me) stupidity, but the cable modem was still wasn’t holding an IP for more than an hour. I called Comcast back so they could “do something” but the technician I talked to said everything appeared to be set up properly and she could tell my modem was getting a good signal. 30 seconds after hanging up, I lost my signal. After 10 minutes on hold I finally got another technician on the line and he said that he could see my modem dropping out all weekend long and he said it was due to a week signal. (Why didn’t the first tech see the same thing?!?!?) Cycling the modem & router restores the connection until it drops out again.

Long story short – I have been “unplugged” since Wednesday so I apologize for the lack of postage. And I have a pile of work so it’s gonna take some time to get caught up on my blog-reading too…