For the last couple of weeks I've been having comcast outages constantly, 5-15 times a day (that I notice). The oddity is that when the outage occurs, the Toshiba modem lights are all normal (power/cable/pc solid; data flashing). The outages seldom last longer than a a couple minutes (long enough to throw me off VPN). When the outage occurs, I can still talk to other computers on my home network, leading me to assume, perhaps wrongly, that the linksys router is OK. I called comcast to schedule service and got the usual line about how i would be charged if the problem was in my equipment. How do I tell? The modem is several years old but its indicators are telling me that data is being passed. Any thoughts? Oh, and unplugging the router and waiting and restoring power usually restores service. This could be incidental since the outages are short. Thanks
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14 years ago