[DM-MUG] Networking and Slower than Molassas

[Ray Bowler]

Bill,

This gets me to a screen asking for a password. I have tied the  
airport password, the network password and the mchsi password. They  
don't work so what shoulr work?

On Jul 31, 2008, at Jul 31, 200812:25 PM, Bill Davis wrote:

> It could be a Mediacom hardware problem.  I had a situation once or  
> twice where my cable connection was getting noisy and this impacted  
> speed - the noise beyond a certain level caused too may transmission  
> errors.   They had to send someone out to fix it.  Don't know if it  
> was the box on our unit, or a neighborhood routing box or  
> whatever.   Another sign of the problem was that my cable TV  
> connection was getting "snowy".
>
> Not sure what cable modem you have, but mine is a "Motorola  
> Surfboard".   I have some notes on the last time I had a problem.
>
> If you have a Moto Surfboard, try what they told me to do:  Direct  
> your web browser to http://192.168.100.1/   This is the cable  
> modem's configuration and status screen.
>
> I was told to click the "Signal" tab and that the signal-to-noise  
> ratio should be in the high 30's or above.  20's is bad.
>
> Another time it was just my cable modem going bad.  They replaced it.
>