I thought the problem might be on my end, so I bought a new NIC. No change. Then time warner gave me a new modem, and the problem still persists.
Before I moved into this new apartment, I was using T1 cable from the old apartment, so I know my ethernet slot works as well as the cords and such. What is going on?? I'm so confused, and I'd like my internet to go thru the ethernet so that I can get Vonage phone service.
Any help would be great! Yeah I disabled those too. This is RoadRunner's setup: see picture attached 1. Coaxial cable is split outside your home. One section goes to your TV, while the other section A goes into the cable modem B. Both the modem power supply cord F and your computer power supply cord G plug into your power strip H which, in turn, is plugged into your household socket. Looks easy enough if that's what you got. The PC LED is the 10Base-T "link" light; it comes on when the Ethernet port is properly connected to a hub or host and the latter is powered on and running.
There are no external "packet" LEDs, but there appear to be two LEDs inside the box partly visible through the ventilation holes that flash with received and transmitted packets. Hardware installation was simple and straightforward. Southwestern Cable sent three installers in two separate trucks, which was ridiculous overkill.
When I rewired my house two years ago I installed a foot-long section of 2" PVC pipe through the ceiling above the shelf and into the attic for the Category 5 wiring. The cable installers used this same pipe to run the required coax line from the modem up to a 2-port splitter in the attic. The installers added a high pass filter apparent cutoff of 50 MHz to the splitter port that feeds my TVs to help keep the strong low-frequency upstream signal from my cable modem out of my TV sets.
Two of the installers were regular cable TV technicians who installed the cable modem box and hooked it into my cable system. The third was a computer technician who brought an Ethernet adaptor and two setup diskettes.
I had never heard of this model before, and it is apparently not software compatible with any other 3Com card, such as the popular 3C Windows 95 does not provide a driver for the 3C, but the installer brought a driver disk that worked fine.
There is nothing special about this card. If you already have an Ethernet card in your system, you can use it with Road Runner as long as you can connect to the Road Runner modem's 10Base-T jack. Here we encounter the strangest, single most brain damaged part of the Road Runner service: the login program. Although cable modem services are supposed to provide continuous LAN-like connectivity to the Internet, the Road Runner service requires that each computer "log in" to the network before it can send any packets.
The login program is provided for Windows 95 and for the Macintosh. The computer technician on the installer team installs it for you and leaves you the disk in case you have to install it again. The login program presents a dialog box with fields for a user name and password that are provided on your service order form. When you log in successfully, the program plays a sound file of the Looney Tunes Road Runner saying "meep! The default browser is Microsoft Internet Explorer. At setup time, the technician downloads this over the cable modem and installs it on your computer.
The sound file is cute the first few times, but it gets old quickly. There's no direct way to disable it, but you can overwrite or delete the. WAV file. You can have the login program launch a different web browser, such as Netscape.
But there doesn't seem to be an option to not launch anything at all, except by configuring the login program to launch a no-op program. You can not close the login program after you've logged in, but you can minimize the window. The login program continues to send "keepalive" packets to the system, without which you are eventually logged off. More about this in the next section.
A colleague and I spent some time analyzing the login procedure. The Road Runner login program is available only for Windows 95 and the Mac. This supplied considerable motivation. DHCP service is available on many corporate networks; both servers and clients are widely available.
The DHCP client is typically started by the computer at boot time. Assuming the cable modem is connected and operating properly, the DHCP server in the cable system in my case, IP address These addresses are "leased" for a limited time typically one hour and are renewed periodically by the DHCP client daemon. Several other pieces of information are also returned to the client in the DHCP response, including the incorrect netmask Note: the assigned domain server depends on where you are in San Diego -- there appear to be twelve different regions.
There seems to be no problem obtaining addresses for several computers connected to a single Road Runner modem through a hub. The installer mentioned a limit of 8 simultaneous client computers on a single cable modem, but I have not verified this. I do know it works for at least three. But with Road Runner, you still can't reach the outside Internet. This same host also functions as the Road Runner authentication server. ICMP packets e. You are using an out of date browser.
It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Road Runner Cable modem????? Joined May 17, Messages 6, Last friday I shut my puter down to go spend my annual weekend on the boat.
Kept having trouble shutting it down. Finally I hit the main switch on the back of the unit. I get back sunday and turned the computer back on to get my dose of iboats.
It wouldn't let me go online at all. Be out thursday. Don't know what happened. Should I still have Road Runner people change out the cable modem? Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any.
But this wrongs the jackass. Comment Post Cancel. I have it and it works great. Faster than anything else, but can slow down a little during high usage times. Don't get it, you will be spoiled and never want to go back. Deputy Joe. I love it. If there is a chance that you will not have it in the future and will have to go back to dial up It is very fast. I have it too. You can use IE, Netscape, or any browser you choose to gain access to the Internet.
RR is fairly stable, I did have some connectivity issues with my wiring and modem, I think they're fixed now. Very few crashes. RR gives you 5 account names, the master and 4 spares. You will also receive cable TV with the RR, it all travels down the same line.
If you're already a cable subscriber, they may give you a break on the monthly RR fee, they do in my area. I have it and love it. The cable company installed it for me. I didn't have to do a thing. I don't recall if they charged me for any parts. I know they had to run a line to th back of the house. Just make sure you computer is cable ready but I think more are.
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