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Hi every one , MY SITE IS DOWN UNTIL COMCAST STOPS CHANGING MY IP ADDRESS
8 mounths of the same ip address then they change it
6 times this week and twice today ,if some one wants to host my textures i can mail you the address of the day ,or hour

john

Sounds to me like Comcast changed the type of account you had or they are simply changing the way IPs are asingned. I have AT&T cable, soon to be Comcast, and I have always had a timed IP adress. I never bothered to ask for a permanent one because even if you do they change it in a few months anyway. They are real buggers about that out here. I only hope the transition to Comcast goes smoothly and I don't start having more outages and they try and jack up my bill or change the bandwidth. I have heard that they want ot split the conections into various speed catagories. Like a 256k, a 512k, 1mb, and saving the 1.5mb for those customers willing to pay top dollar. I am going to be vary pissed off if they change my conection to a slower one and keep charging me the same. But that is the rumor going around out here. A tyred pay scheme I think they are calling it. With nly those willing to pay like $69.95 a month getting the 1.5mb coection. If this goes in I think I will be getting shafted to a 512K conection for what I pay. This is really going to suck. Oh well DSL anyone? Not me. Even if you paid me to try it.

Hi Don I havent pinged my cable reacently but it was 1.5 MG .
hear are some things to think about with Comcast


1) At least once a day I have to POWER OFF REBOOT the cable modom locks up .
A) Internet Explorer is the worst I end up power off reboot 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 times an HOUR there is about a 75% chance that it will lock up while downloding ---Bad ha--
B) Mozilla is a LOT BETTER once or twice a day i have to power off reboot .

2) There E-Mail SUCKS no junk mail fillters I end up using Yahoo mail and not comcast.net . Only 5 people have the comcast account name but it fills with junk .

so far comcast's "fix" to the cable modom's problem is to power off reboot .This is NOT A FIX

I am cetting a deal on the $ becaus i have basic +some tv cable so i only spend 40$/Mo. for internet

John,
How can you live with rebooting the modem all the time. That would just piss me off. If I were you I would call the service department and demand a new cable modem. That is of course if you are renting one rather then the owner. I was having a similar problem a few days ago and I finaly figured out it wasn't the modem that was having a problem. It was my old Uninterupted Power supply. The battery in the thing had been nearly dead for over a year but I just left it there and used it as a power smoother so to speak. As soon as I removed it everything went back to normal. You might check into your modems power supply. If the modem doesn't get a steady curent that will cause it to lock up. If you haave a good voltage meter you might check and see if the transformer is putting off the rated voltage printed on its label. If it isn't then this is a good bet as to what may be causeing your problem. If its the power supply and you got the modem from COMCAST I would definetly call them for a replacement.
I have never personaly noticed much of a diference between the varoius browsers making a diference when making a conection. But I may start using something diferent for the simple fact that all the Celestia sites, the forum and gallery load very slowly on IE.

Well it SEAMS to be better now that i reformated the hard drive and clean instaled win XP