Comments on: Modem demoted http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/11/19/modem-demoted/ I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog. Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:30:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: mungascr http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/11/19/modem-demoted/#comment-24120 mungascr Wed, 22 Nov 2006 07:51:43 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/11/19/modem-demoted/#comment-24120 No luck seeing anything from Oz - well at least not Adelaide or atleatsagain my corner thereof. Too cloudy. Slept outside last night an' all - on a swag on the lawn, looking up ... at the clouds with very occasional partial breaks and no meteors. Did spot a bright satellite or very high altidue plane briefly and that's all folks. Fully overcast on the other two nights too. Ah, computers - can't live with'em, can't kill em. (with apologies to the script-writer of 'True Lies') What they really need to invent is a just bl__ work button! No luck seeing anything from Oz - well at least not Adelaide or atleatsagain my corner thereof. Too cloudy.

Slept outside last night an’ all - on a swag on the lawn, looking up … at the clouds with very occasional partial breaks and no meteors. Did spot a bright satellite or very high altidue plane briefly and that’s all folks.

Fully overcast on the other two nights too.

Ah, computers - can’t live with’em, can’t kill em.
(with apologies to the script-writer of ‘True Lies’)

What they really need to invent is a just bl__ work button!

]]> By: CS http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/11/19/modem-demoted/#comment-24119 CS Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:19:58 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/11/19/modem-demoted/#comment-24119 Just in case you were unaware that most cable modems have one, have you checked the cable modem status page? They often have a log of what connection problems they are having. The ip address depends on the brand (like a router), and is something like http://192.168.100.1/ (if that works for you). Just in case you were unaware that most cable modems have one, have you checked the cable modem status page? They often have a log of what connection problems they are having. The ip address depends on the brand (like a router), and is something like http://192.168.100.1/ (if that works for you).

]]> By: Gary Ansorge http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/11/19/modem-demoted/#comment-24118 Gary Ansorge Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:45:26 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/11/19/modem-demoted/#comment-24118 Melusine: Tanks for the link to Blake. Very insightful!!! Now I have somewhere else to spend my retirement time,,, GAry 7 Melusine: Tanks for the link to Blake.
Very insightful!!!

Now I have somewhere else to spend my retirement time,,,

GAry 7

]]> By: Melusine http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/11/19/modem-demoted/#comment-24117 Melusine Mon, 20 Nov 2006 10:37:39 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/11/19/modem-demoted/#comment-24117 Shouldn't be Bora Boring - that was a joke to the Bora Bora guy who harassed Phil, and who was rightly deleted. Sorry. Need. More. Coffee. Shouldn’t be Bora Boring - that was a joke to the Bora Bora guy who harassed Phil, and who was rightly deleted. Sorry. Need. More. Coffee.

]]> By: Bora Boring http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/11/19/modem-demoted/#comment-24116 Bora Boring Mon, 20 Nov 2006 10:30:49 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/11/19/modem-demoted/#comment-24116 It's 4:25 a.m...that would be "Cheers! to the positive aspects of the Internet." <a href="http://www.xkcd.com/c26.html" rel="nofollow">This is apt, too</a>. It’s 4:25 a.m…that would be “Cheers! to the positive aspects of the Internet.”

This is apt, too.

]]> By: Melusine http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/11/19/modem-demoted/#comment-24115 Melusine Mon, 20 Nov 2006 10:11:21 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/11/19/modem-demoted/#comment-24115 My modems seem to fry easily - I've been through four in four years. I hate places like CompUSA, because they didn't tell me that it's a snap to replace a modem yourself. When I brought it to a small shop with these odd, heavyset guys who smoke in front of customers, one guy showed me, and I was like, "Oh...that's easy." I was so embarrassed. Now I dust my CPU innards. Regarding Jennifer and Sean - who would have thought APS meetings could be such hotbeds of romance? Cheers! to the postive aspect of the Internet, though... ...from Blake's link, <a href="http://www.xkcd.com/c77.html" rel="nofollow">this may be all too true</a>. My modems seem to fry easily - I’ve been through four in four years. I hate places like CompUSA, because they didn’t tell me that it’s a snap to replace a modem yourself. When I brought it to a small shop with these odd, heavyset guys who smoke in front of customers, one guy showed me, and I was like, “Oh…that’s easy.” I was so embarrassed. Now I dust my CPU innards.

Regarding Jennifer and Sean - who would have thought APS meetings could be such hotbeds of romance? Cheers! to the postive aspect of the Internet, though…

…from Blake’s link, this may be all too true.

]]> By: Scott http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/11/19/modem-demoted/#comment-24114 Scott Mon, 20 Nov 2006 07:14:24 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/11/19/modem-demoted/#comment-24114 You're without the Internets? Internets? How many Internets are there? :-) You’re without the Internets? Internets? How many Internets are there? :-)

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