Bizzarre Cable Internet Problems.

I highly doubt it's the government. They have better ways of shutting you up than that, and I don't see why they would even care to shut you up.

I had Comcast Internet before. To sum it up: they suck. I had the same problems you're having. I switched, they went away. If it was the government doing it to me, surely it wouldn't matter that I switched.

Change your service.

Wow, just got back online and checked this thread. Great responses. I will try to see what's up.

Comcast has replaced the modem three times. The guy did a check on the signal, and said it's the best he's ever seen. Somewhere around 98-99%

I'm positive they are messing with me. Have been for some time.

The last Comcast guy that was here was really nice, and he gave me a website that checks the internet speed connection, and he said if certain parameter got low, there was a problem.

Well about a week after he gave me that site, it quit working. They took the site down! WTF.

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apc, have that up and running. Thanks!

It's pinging away.

Originally posted by stompk
I'm positive they are messing with me. Have been for some time.

I'm telling you man, all of this happened to me with Comcast. Every single thing you're saying happened to me. I switched - it went away.

No one is messing with you. It's Comcast. They suck.

The simplest answer is probably the correct one. In this case, it is.

Don't ask us for help if you're going to ignore all of our suggestions and just going to keep telling yourself the government is targeting you for no reason without any proof to back it up.

[edit on 12/2/07 by NovusOrdoMundi]

Howdy-

I run a small ISP- so I'm a bit familiar with how systems work for Comcast, AT&T, whoever...

Following the previous suggestions in this thread is an awesome start to figuring out your issue- however I'm inclined to believe that your area's Comcast service is having problems with their DNS service.

DNS (Domain Name Service) is the server that changes "www.whatever.com" to an IP address the computer can understand. Many DNS servers are attacked for various reasons and also are subject to heavy loads at times, and cable internet is notorious for bandwidth issues due to the cable infrastructure which limits the amount of possible data thru an amplified cable assembly which supports an entire neighborhood (you'll see these amps on the cable lines outside on the poles).

In my experience, cable companies are usually great at providing video, but generally lack the proper technical knowledge to support data services. Video feeds are simple- they only go one way, but internet data is full-duplex -meaning that data flows both ways- so there are multiple frequencies being used through the cable to provide that flow, and many many many amplifiers and junctions and splitters and whatnot in the path to your house, all working together to provide you with crappy data service.

Back to the DNS server- if you noticed with the ping command from the previous posts, it will tell you what the IP address is of any site you enter. Record the IP address of a few sites you frequent and keep them handy for the next time your service goes down. Once it is down, try 'pinging' the list of IP addresses you've kept. If you are getting a response with a ping but nothing will load on the browser, you can try entering the ip address into the address bar on your browser. If the page loads with the IP but not www.whatever.com, then their dns service is down and the reason you cannot connect.

However, if you are running a ping with the -t in it, and you start dropping requests when the service goes out, then there is a problem with the actual connection to their network and the tech should be called WHEN it is happening or write the time down so they can check their logs (which any decent ISP should have available)

Hope this helps- good luck!