Road Runner router IP
gphillip at kaiser.aafp.org
gphillip at kaiser.aafp.org
Thu Mar 13 03:37:36 CST 2003
Did Road Runner tech support give you much of a hassle? I run Whatsup
Gold at work and started monitoring my home router from my office. I have
had 3 outages this evening. Each lasted less than 2 minutes. I have a
feeling that when I tell them I am running linux, they will try to put the
blame on me.
> I had this problem about 4 months ago. Road Runner came out and plugged
a
> little meter outside of the house to the cable line, and detected the
switch
> was sending surges out making cable signal fade. Also was getting a
quick
> "snow" screen on TV when it happened. (Wasn't noticeable unless your
> concentrating). Turns out that half my neighbors was having the same
> problem and were too lazy to call Road Runner. The guy fixed everyone
by
> replacing a switch in Grandview, MO about 4 days later.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
> [mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net] On Behalf Of
> gphillip at kaiser.aafp.org
> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 12:28 PM
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: Road Runner router IP
>
> Does anyone have the RoadRunner business class broadband? I do and have
> been having alot of short outages. Access goes down for say 60 seconds
> and then is back up.
>
> Before I talk to RR I want to make sure the problem is not on my end.
> Does anyone know if the router that comes with business class has its
own
> IP address that is pingable from the outside world? I use my work
> connection to monitor my home PC. I would like to be able to monitor
> access to the router. That way I could see if the connection was dying
> before or after the router.
>
> thanks
> chad
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