Router Weirdness

[Helevitia]

Damn dude. I've been silently following this thread. I hope they fix your problem. Just keep complaining.

Dave

[Wombat]

Originally posted by ALBPM
I may go buy a Motorola 5100 just to have a decent modem and quit paying the rent for Comcast's modem.

I wouldn't do that. I started with my own modem with @Home, back when it was $10/mo to rent. Any problem that I had, they blamed my modem. And that modem did die within a year, so renting was about the same cost.

Now that it's $3/mo or whatever, definitely rent. If there's a problem with ANYTHING, it's Comcast's fault, and they have to fix it. Save yourself the headaches.

[ALBPM]

Point taken Wombat I'll keep using theirs for the $3/month.

At least Comcast is already acknowledging a System problem for the area. This could have dragged on longer...

What I may do is buy a better power supply for the modem. The current one is a 9 VDC, 800mA OEM Brand.

Any opinions on what a 12 VDC supply would do to the modem long term???

Rat Shack has a few choices:
9VDC, 800mA which is what I have now.
9VDC, 1000mA
12VDC, 1000mA
12VDC, 1500mA


I did finally find the manual for the RCA DCM325:

http://download.ethomson.com/english/RCA/MULTIMEDIA/IB/16382740.pdf

Links for the rest of the RCA Modems:

RCA modem support

[ALBPM]

Bump!!

Any opinions on what a 12 VDC supply would do to the modem long term???

Rat Shack has a few choices:
9VDC, 800mA which is what is on now and appears to be required.
9VDC, 1000mA
12VDC, 1000mA
12VDC, 1500mA

[Wombat]

You'll probably blow a power regulator, or if you're unlucky, something important.

[gt40]

carefull of non-regulated supplies, they will typically supply 2-5 volts more than their rating.
Also, if the power supply that came with your modem is a switching power supply you should replace it with the same.