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Physical stats of cable modems

I am interested in what physical stats are available for cable modems and what they say about that modem. I can think of the that sound important to me: The ability to cope with strong or weak signals. Usually modem connections suffer when the…
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How to use two different ISP on same LAN with one Ethernet switch?

Sorry if same question is asked on Stackoverflow. I searched and tried some configuration but are not working in my case. I have a LAN with 6 machines which are on same network (each other can be accessed using name and IP Address). I was using…
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How to replace a hardware modem by virtual modem

I have an embedded device that is connected by an old dial-up modem to the Internet. I cannot change the embedded device but would like to connect the embedded device to a Linux machine that has an Internet connection. The Linux machine has a…
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Gateway/Modem overload when running a web spider

Problem: All other devices on the network experience serious lag and timed out web pages, email, chat dropping, etc while this is running. This is a cross post from stackoverflow, I may have used the wrong site! Details: Using libcurl for…
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How to connect a /dev USB modem in an LXC container?

I've been struggling with various tutorials to hook up my /dev/ttyACM0 in a lxc container. Basically I've tried adding the following line in my lxc config : lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 166:* rwm And the following one too (both with relative and…
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Windows Server 2012 RRAS/NAT with PPPoE Modem

I'm trying to connect to a BT Openreach VDSL Modem with Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials, I have RRAS with NAT set up. My server looks like this; NIC 1 - Into a TP-Link Switch to connect a myriad of devices (computers, access points, etc..) NIC 2…
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Minicom Successive Address Dialing

I've been tasked with writing a script for the minicom connection utility that tests a series of numbers in its dialing directory, I have found the baked in scripting language to be near useless. I've been trying to use the shell launch syntax to…
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One router and one modem+router. Can I pass a static IP range from one to the other?

I had been running a Huawei HG612 connected to a DD-WRT router for internet services using PPPoE as authentication. Due to an office move, I need to have a DG834 modem+router which will be used for connecting to a PPPoA network. After that, the…
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Why won't mutliple identical 56k fax modems work in Windows?

I've just installed two identical fax modems into a Windows Server 2003 Standard server and for whatever reason, the first one works fine and the other doesn't. They both create virtual COM ports and using SysInternals PortMon, I can see that…
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Connect from firewall to Cisco 877 in Bridged mode

I have a Cisco 877 in bridged mode acting as an ADSL2 modem only. My firewall is doing PPPOE and the internet works great. What I would like to do is give vlan1 on the Cisco 877 an IP address e.g. 10.10.10.1/24 and then give my firewall a secondary…
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Server is pingable on some ips but not on others

We have comcast business class internet with 5 static IPs. 4 out of 5 of them are assigned to a server that sits right behind the smc. The smc has DHCP disabled so it should be in pass through mode. Everything was working fine this morning, but…
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usb_modeswitch not switching

After I upgraded from kernel 2.6.18 to 3.5.3 modeswitch started not to work for me. Although lsusb shows my usb modem, usb_modeswitch does not switch it. My system information is like below. I ran lsusb, dmesg, usb-devices and usb_modeswitch their…
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how would it be possible to discover a cable modem's MAC remotely?

i was reading the back archives of a canadian privacy law blog, and he linked to a judicial decision. apparently as part of an investigation in which were used yahoo chat and google's old 'hello' image trading program the officer was able to…
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Replacing modem with a vpn router

Can I replace an open network iconnect 624 modem with a cisco router in a small network that needs multiple PPTP VPN connection? iconnect 624 modem doesnt allow multple simultaneous PPTP VPN channels? So if i replace this modem with a cisco 881…
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256k speed connection to host multiple users

I've been given a 256k modem for a 2 day event to allow users access to the internet. There will be multiple connections (I anticipate 30+). How can I set this up so that it can support that many connections at once or what are some other ways to…
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