On 6/28/05, Zscoundrel Zscoundrel@kc.rr.com wrote:
I actually have had similar problems with Road Runner. They act as if they are forbidden by contractual obligations to support Linux.
I used to have to go through a lot of crap to disconnect my home network and connect just the windoze machine to type in one or two commands. Once I figured out what the equivalent Linux commands are, I just enter those instead. Once we get past this part of the support script, they know the problem is theirs and they fix the problem.
We used to have lots of problems maybe not totally rr's fault. If it wasn't that the connection just dropped and or the cable modem needed to be power cycled, other then that fixed most of our problems. We also would find out someone in our house was upload and stealing all the bandwidth =\ or once we even found someone had a virus and was uploading like crazy it was when we had a lan party with about 15 ppl at are house. We did have to have a tech come out once, and I was the only person home, and all I had was my linux box, all I did was restart the nic process (/etc/init.d/net.eth0 in gentoo) and bam internet was working. We even had a line cut by Everest... right after the techs left so we had to wait another couple hours til they fixed it.