It’s snappy, that’s for sure.
CMA never did correct the problem. I’m sure once they get it corrected my gear wont work anymore. Turns out they bind the MAC address of the device connected to the cable modem with an IP address and even though I purchased a static IP that will never change, my router still has to use DHCP to acquire the IP from the provider. No problem. The problem is that they set up the wrong MAC address so the cable guy calls in and has them change the MAC address to use which would fix the problem. Then I’m told changes to the MAC addresss can take up to 24-48 hours. I’m like what?
Anyway it still wont work with the settings they emailed to me yesterday (like I am supposed to get an email on Internet that doesn’t work) but I have rigged it up so it will work.
I was able to plug the cable modem into a network port on a PC and let the cable modem automatically configure the network connection. Then I looked at the properties for the connection and wrote down the IP configuration, notably the MAC address that was being reported.
I then plugged the cable modem back into the router and instructed the router to use the MAC address I specify when communicating with the cable modem.
Bingo. So when, or if, they ever change the setting at CMA, my connection will go dead and I’ll have to change my router’s configuration again. I bet a dollar it never gets changed. They was just gonna leave a brand new paying customer without service until I raised hell. All because they don’t really know what they are doing.
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The Internet is Dead. So says Dallas Mavericks owner and erstwhile internet tycoon Mark Cuban.
We have reached a point of diminishing returns with today’s internet. The speed of broadband to your home won’t increase much more in the next five years than it has in the last five years. That is not enough to work as a platform for new levels of applications that will require much, much higher levels of bandwidth.
I think we may have a slight case of sour grapes here and what Cuban really means is that he has come to the realization that his business efforts surrounding the Internet are dead. Ironcically, later in the article we found out the Internet is about as dead as the telephone:
Answering questions by email from the Cayman Islands, where he was vacationing with his family and recovering from hip-replacement surgery, Cuban also shared his views on Rupert Murdoch’s acquisition of the Wall Street Journal, Yahoo versus Google, day-trading, his personal investment strategy, and why he won’t pull the plug on his much-criticized business journalism operation, Sharesleuth.com, in which he shorts companies that the site plans to trash-hoping to turn a tidy profit on his pre-publication insider knowledge.
Yes Mark, there are other things to do with the Internet than make Billions of dollars on a gimmick. I could have told you five years ago streaming hi def video to the home was not going to be doable any time soon. Not because I am so smart or anything, but because it is just common sense to look at the size of file that contains a full length movie and then look at the pipe available to shove it through and anyone can see that it will take forever.
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