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Post by Jeff on Aug 20, 2012 16:31:08 GMT -5
Hopefully that is the case for your route, they can be. . . a pain. . . Side Note: I hope I didn't scare you too much earlier. Some of the pain is self-inflicted because eventually I lose patience and start taking drastic measures that turn out to be unnecessary later. ![:P](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/tongue.png) Crash Override targeted me at the same time you did. I figured you were just playing but Crash kept me in his sights for a while. I was just looking for an out of the way place to park that moth.
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Post by Hammer on Aug 20, 2012 18:21:05 GMT -5
Hi all. I am STILL having internet connection problems today. My cable provider denies having any problems in my area, and I was starting to wonder if my old Motorola 10/100 Surfboard cable Modem was failing. I was on my way to the store to pic up the new 10/100/1000 Surfboard DOCSIS3 modem and got sidetracked. When I got home, everything appears to be normal. Go figure. Guess maybe it was the cable service after all. However, if the game dumps on you, don't assume it's something at your end. Maybe my modem really is taking a shit, and I'll have to go run to the store and get a new one. Later Hammer
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Post by Jeff on Aug 21, 2012 13:17:01 GMT -5
Hi all. I am STILL having internet connection problems today. My cable provider denies having any problems in my area, and I was starting to wonder if my old Motorola 10/100 Surfboard cable Modem was failing. I was on my way to the store to pic up the new 10/100/1000 Surfboard DOCSIS3 modem and got sidetracked. When I got home, everything appears to be normal. Go figure. Guess maybe it was the cable service after all. However, if the game dumps on you, don't assume it's something at your end. Maybe my modem really is taking a shit, and I'll have to go run to the store and get a new one. Later Hammer I went through the same song and dance with my ISP, Charter, years ago. I would go for months with a near perfect connection and then months with spontaneous dropped connections and reconnections several times a day. Plus my cable TV picture seemed to be getting worse. But Charter claimed everything looked good on their end. I knew I hadn't changed anything on my end. Eventually, Bestbuy had a sale on well-reviewed Motorola SB5100 cable modems with a manufacturer's rebate that dropped the price to about $40.00 USD. I immediately bought one and did a self install. Next I replaced the extremely long, cheap looking coax cable and filters connecting the cable splitter to my PC and TV with much shorter, better quality coax cable without the filters. My theory was that after Charter bought out my original ISP they installed new or upgraded equipment and changed the signal levels reaching my apartment. But I wasn't willing to pay Charter $50 to send someone to my building to tell me that or to do what I could do as well or better myself. I connected my TV without the filters first and the picture quality was 100% better. I connected my router and PC without the filters next and my internet connection has been near perfect ever since. I opened the Motorola cable modem status window in my browser by entering address 192.168.100.1 to check my new signal levels and they were all good according to websites like Broadbandreports.com aka DSLReports.com. I can't recommend anyone else remove filters or splitters unless you're sure you know what you're doing but I've learned a lot from the above website. One thing I really like is that they have ISP specific forums where you can read what other customers of your ISP have to say, maybe even someone from your own town. Plus the Charter forum has a Charter Direct forum where you can communicate directly with Charter employees who apparently are considered to be very good by forum regulars. Long story short. Open your Motorola cable modem's status window and check your signal levels before you blame the modem. I replaced my perfectly good SB5100 modem with an even better SB6121 and it was the right thing for me to do but it won't help you if your signal levels are bad.
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Post by Pilot on Aug 22, 2012 7:15:32 GMT -5
I guess I should look into this for mine.
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Post by Jeff on Aug 22, 2012 14:56:58 GMT -5
I guess I should look into this for mine. According to the Broadbandreports.com website 192.168.100.1 is a fairly common way to access cable modem status pages. There are several web pages in my Motorola modems including signal levels and logs that can help identify problems.
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Post by Jeff on Aug 22, 2012 15:03:12 GMT -5
I just got a "Server not responding" message and now Hammer's game doesn't show up in Hardman again. I guess switching back to my old router might not have fixed the problem I was having connecting earlier. I switched back to my new router and figured out how to configure port forwarding and UPnP to be be able to connect to Hammer's game server. It's a bit like switching from programming in Basic to programming in Assembler. ![:P](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/tongue.png)
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Post by Pilot on Aug 22, 2012 16:55:25 GMT -5
Isn't Assembler a step back?
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Post by elitepow on Aug 22, 2012 23:33:42 GMT -5
hammer can u let us know when ur having rarely any outages? just tired of back tracking and going broke xD
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Post by Pilot on Aug 23, 2012 0:23:18 GMT -5
It was stable to night the hour or so I was on, alone, so very alone, well unless you counted the pirates with flares and firebursts. . . Made me lose 3 lasers(cargo) a MM, pod5, cell1, pulse laser, plasma kannon, laser turret, and afterburner, though I may have had one more thing in my cargo pod, idk.
Ah yeah, Pirates and scavengers don't bother with minerals (trojan weapon).
I got 20 or so kills and only repaired once, I wouldn't have died, but I hit the ground while quick droning. :/
Anyway. . . Does anyone have a full list of PURCHASABLE Pirate Hangars? I'm going to buy everyone of them I can and hope the trader population increases.
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Post by elitepow on Aug 23, 2012 1:33:53 GMT -5
want me to start buying them aswell?
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Post by Pilot on Aug 23, 2012 8:16:43 GMT -5
If you like. ^^
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Post by Hammer on Aug 23, 2012 9:19:11 GMT -5
Hello flyers....STILL having my modem drop out. It did it again this morning while I was sitting here. I have a very busy end of week going on. I'm figuring on buying a new modem beginning of next week and seeing how it goes. My cable company said they're going to the new DOCSIS 3 system right now and eventually I wll need a DOCSIS 3 compatible modem soon anyway. Sooo....if I have to buy one anyhow, that's what I'll do. However, if I get that modem, and it STILL drops out. Me and the cable company are going to have a little talk! Sorry about the shitty connection and play. Hopefully I can get this straighrtened out next week sometime, while I'm on vacation. Speed and Greed on Titan! Hammer
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Post by Jeff on Aug 23, 2012 12:56:01 GMT -5
Good luck, Hammer. Keep talking to your ISP and do what you have to do to get good signals on your cable modem. I went from several dropped connections a day for weeks at time to maybe one or two a year in the middle of the night for something like a modem firmware upgrade.
Charter converted to DOCSIS 3 some time ago and I replaced my Motorola SB5100 modem with a Motorola SB6121 a few months later. It was a completely trouble-free switch.
I'm perfectly happy with the quality of my internet connection with Charter but it annoys me that they refuse to upgrade me to their new higher speed internet service unless I quit being their customer for 30 days or I change my service to include phone and/or tv.
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Post by elitepow on Aug 23, 2012 13:05:15 GMT -5
bought 2, 1 in alpha and 1 in gamma
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Post by elitepow on Aug 23, 2012 13:07:15 GMT -5
Hello flyers....STILL having my modem drop out. It did it again this morning while I was sitting here. I have a very busy end of week going on. I'm figuring on buying a new modem beginning of next week and seeing how it goes. My cable company said they're going to the new DOCSIS 3 system right now and eventually I wll need a DOCSIS 3 compatible modem soon anyway. Sooo....if I have to buy one anyhow, that's what I'll do. However, if I get that modem, and it STILL drops out. Me and the cable company are going to have a little talk! Sorry about the shitty connection and play. Hopefully I can get this straighrtened out next week sometime, while I'm on vacation. Speed and Greed on Titan! Hammer also hammer have u considered www.no-ip.com/ for ur hosting thing, that way people can just put in for example hammer.no-ip or something and it lets ppl in.... or is this game 2 old for that?
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