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 Sunday, June 11, 2006
started 6/11/2006; 2:26:12 PM - last post 6/13/2006; 2:41:53 AM
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Doc Searls - Sunday, June 11, 2006 
6/11/2006; 6:26:12 PM (reads: 8745, responses: 6)
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Is there anything more cool 
| | [Later...] The Mavs won. They were an offensive machine, with every player contributing. And they played killer defense on Shaq and Dwayne. It was a humiliating defeat for Miami. |
| | By the next morning, Mark Cuban's blog was down. One can guess why. |
Half (or less of) a Gang up
| | I prepared by listening to the rest of Attention Deficit Theatre Part II, in which I dust off my old chops as an improvisational comic. It was the most fun I've had since Part I of the same thing. |
The Company you lose
| | 6. We of course never made the article and the reporter deleted her blog about a week later. |
| | 7. We saved this as we feel it makes a good point that you need to have mutual respect as a blogger and traditional media interacts. |
| | 8 We believe you need to have transparancy. That is something we feel they lack. |
| | Kevin is also leading the Stop Web 2.0 movement. Which may be a contradiction in terms, but... we'll see. |
In addition to Chasing Amy
Can't wait to avoid it
| | Here Becky Brown explains, in her own and Andy Plesser's words, "how Viiv will let the consumer have what they want, at home when they want it." |
| | Sure. As long as what you (excuse me, "the consumer") want doesn't come from partners of non-interoperable competing content-delivery plumbing and gear from Apple, Google or Yahoo. |
Companies are schwag
| | What's most interesting to me about both guys is that I can't imagine either of them fitting into a job title. Both will play roles, of course. But job titles, boxes in org charts, are so last-millennium. They are relics of an Industrial Age that was born of the doomed notion that people are best understood as cogs in corporate machines. |
| | One sad thing for Microsoft about losing Scoble was that they couldn't pay him what he was worth to the company, which will remain incalculably large — even after he's gone. In fact, there is no HR metric for figuring the worth of a worker like Scoble, whose value to Microsoft was due more to his work outside the company's walls than inside them. Ironically, Robert Scoble may turn out to have been the most human resource Microsoft ever had. |
| | Hey, what matters most in the long run is who you are. Not who you work for. |
| | Microsoft and Scoble were both lucky to have each other. But the larger loss, in this case, is Microsoft's. |
| | Meanwhile, many of us will look for Niall to fill Scoble's shoes. Won't happen, because they're different guys. Niall will make big footprints fersure; but they'll be his own. |
A short tale question for the long one
| | What causes a cable modem to do this... |
| | PING google.com (64.233.187.99): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 64.233.187.99: icmp_seq=1 ttl=243 time=93.270 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.187.99: icmp_seq=3 ttl=243 time=96.278 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.187.99: icmp_seq=5 ttl=243 time=102.826 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.187.99: icmp_seq=7 ttl=243 time=95.846 ms
^C
--- google.com ping statistics ---
8 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 50% packet loss
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| | I've done longer ping tests, and with other servers, and the result is the same: okay ping times, and 50%+ packet loss. |
| | I can only fix it by unplugging the cable modem, letting it sit for a minute, and plugging it in again. Then everything is fine. This would be acceptable if service deteriorated like this maybe once a month, or once a week. About a week ago, it started happening about once a day. Now it's more than once a day. |
| | Cox (our cable company) is coming tomorrow afternoon to look at it. Meanwhile, I'm wondering if any networky type techies among you know what's up with that kind of cable modem behavior. |
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Steve Borsch - Re: Sunday, June 11, 2006
6/11/2006; 9:43:41 PM (reads: 863, responses: 0)
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I'm definitely NOT a "networky type techie"...but had an almost identical problem so thought I'd weigh in.
On a call with Time Warner Roadrunner due to ping time problems, upload and download speeds lower than anything previously and, most problematic, my Vonage and Skype call dropouts were pretty severe...and all of this wasn't right.
Luckily while on the call, the technician saw what he described as a "power spike" on my modem and wanted to send out a truck. I thought this would be a waste and that it was probably a server issue on their end, but agreed to it.
The Roadrunner tech changed out a filter at the cable box by the street (and mentioned they'd been changing these failed ones out periodically since "they've been failing over time") and also replaced my cable modem.
The result? Ping times to Google (from Minnesota) in the 20's, download speeds moved from 3.5mbps down to 4.7mbps and uploads from 200kbps up to 392kbps (all averages).
Now I'm bugged I waited so long *and* that Roadrunner didn't accelerate their diagnostics and break-fixes.
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jeremy hunsinger - Re: Sunday, June 11, 2006
6/11/2006; 10:47:17 PM (reads: 854, responses: 0)
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usually cable modem packet loss is caused by bad termination in your loop. that means that there is likely at least one or more bad cable modem boxes before or after your system that has bad termination or is otherwise absorbing your packets or sending similar packets. The first thing to do is to make sure that it isn't a termination problem in your house, where the cable is plugged into some device that isn't functioning properly. so unplug everything from the cable other than the cable modem and see if the problem is resolved, if it isn't then try an alternative cable modem and see if it is resolved, and well you can see the logic from there....
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the head lemur - Re: Sunday, June 11, 2006
6/12/2006; 12:10:40 AM (reads: 844, responses: 0)
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If you can ping 192.168.0.1 which is your modem default address and not get any packet loss it is Upstream filter or box problem.
Since you can reboot, and reduce your TTL, we can eliminate your modem.
If your cable TV is not showing ghosting or not displaying, it is on the internet filter side.
you could do a trace route and see where the ip failure is occuring
and see if you can get the cox tech ping it, to see if it is on his network.
Occasionally, Qwest out of denver used to have some ill mannered routers that would drop bits all the time.
You don't want to go down that road and try and call the Qwest NOC in Denver. NIH, NOP, yada yada yada.
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Julian Bond - Re: Sunday, June 11, 2006
6/12/2006; 12:11:12 PM (reads: 847, responses: 2)
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Is there a wifi router in the mix as well? Are you running Skype or any other P2P programs? I've seen P2P and especially Skype overwhelm Linksys routers due to a bug in standard Linksys firmware that held on to TCP sessions for way too long. The cure is one of the alternate firmware distros like HyperWRT and some settings.
I'd at least start by doing pings from a machine connected direct to the modem before being sure that it's an upstream problem.
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Doc Searls - Re: Sunday, June 11, 2006
6/12/2006; 4:22:29 PM (reads: 982, responses: 1)
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There's a wi-fi router at the end of a 250-foot Ethernet cable. But I can take the router out, hook the laptop up to the cable, and get the same results. I can also restart the router and get the same results.
I havent used P2P programs or Skype recently here.
The phenomenon is always the same. Thoughput degenerates, I run a ping test, and the result is 50% or greater packet loss. I go down the hill to the garage where the cable modem is, I unplug the modem, wait a minute, plug it in, and all is well.
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Michael Bernstein - Re: Sunday, June 11, 2006
6/13/2006; 6:41:53 AM (reads: 1020, responses: 0)
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Ah, 'garage syndrome'.
Ok, just kidding about that term. However, I'll note that garages are not friendly environments to consumer electronics. Are the cooling vents clogged with dust? Do you use the garage to park a car (fumes from a just-parked car will over time coat the internal components)?
Here in Vegas, temperatures soar to ~120 degrees every summer (and correspondingly hotter in my garage), which also isn't good for components.
And so on.
It's probable that the solution will be to replace the cable-modem, in which case expect this to happen again eventually.
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