Contributed by: evilscientist
So last Saturday I swapped my old Motorola Cybersurf modem for the new DOCIS modem from my ISP. So there was a brief period on Saturday where the sites here at Castle Evil were down. No big deal. Except that for some bizzare reason the new modem kept dropping carrier. My ISP sent out a tech last night to check signal levels and such. The levels were fine and he swapped out the modem. So far so good, except for some reason the modem picked up a dynamic IP from my ISP as opposed to using my static IP. So after about an hour on the phone with tech support it was recommended to power down the modem for four hours. Since it was late at this point I powered down the modem and went to bed. It's now morning and things seem to be working again. If over the next couple of weeks you can't see things here at Castle evil, it's probably just a modem problem and all I can suggest at the moment is to try again in a few minutes. Ahhh technology.....Comments (0)
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