Got home last night from my last official Search Committee meeting (huzzah!) to find Margie cursing softly and fooling around with the cable modem …<\/p>\n
After a half hour or more with the line not coming back up, she called Comcast. Dude on the phone called up our records, and suggested it was either a bad modem or a line problem (as opposed to Something Evil We’re Doing). Margie set up a cable man appointment for Wednesday — but, meantime, has gotten a location (Arapahoe and Revere) where we can exchange our current modem, to see if that does any good. <\/p>\n
I’ve done some research myself, but need to do more, on a replacement. My primary reluctance in doing so, aside from dropping $150 for a cable gateway, is that I hate to give Comcast another excuse to say it’s not their <\/em>fault.<\/p>\n More as it develops …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Got home last night from my last official Search Committee meeting (huzzah!) to find Margie cursing softly and fooling around with the cable modem … After a half hour or…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-computer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7454,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/03\/01\/lateral_upgrade.html","url_meta":{"origin":7462,"position":0},"title":"Lateral upgrade","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 1-Mar-05 1:47pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Since I was on a phonecon this morning, even as I watched the cable modem blink its lonely, clueless, disconnected way, Margie ran off to the Comcast Office. 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