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joseph marty <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 10 Jan 2002 20:46:22 -0500
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Thing is, my home network and internet connection were working fine. It would get disconnected from the Internet if you jiggled the Cat 5 cable plugged into the cable modem.  I just wanted them to either fix or replace the modem so the cable would be secure when plugged in.  Everything else worked fine.  What I had done as a temporary fix was to twisty tie the cat 5 to the very stiff and stable incoming internet cable.  I should have just left that rather than have them come here when I wasn't here.  Considering the number of people on this list who have routers, if what those techies said was true, we should be bringing all the cable Internet networks down.  I don't think they would have said that to me, but rather were preying on my wife's general lack of knowledge.  If home networks were so bad, why do companies sell so many router/switchboxes?  I have never ever heard that argument for giving up a home network.
>
>> guys dismantled my two computer home network. They were called because
>> the plug on the cable modem allowed the cat 5 cable to wiggle and
>> disconnect from the Internet.  I was at work, but they told my wife
>> that because there is power to the router/switchbox I cannot use it.
>> They told her it would screw up my connection and others on the
>> network.  It worked fine aside from the loose plug on the modem.  Has
>> anyone heard of such a thing, or is this, as I suspect, something they
>> are trained to say so that you won't be able to connect your own LAN
>> and not pay for extra IPs?
>
>They obviously meant that it might disturb your connection and others on their network, not your
>home network.  On a properly designed public network, such as an ISP's, nothing within reason
>which could accidentally happen on a single node should damage other parts of the network.
>The techies at my ISP like to make similar remarks, but I think that they are told to discourage us
>from home networking just to reduce support calls, not for any more sinister reason.
>
>As to problems on your home network interfering with your own Internet connection, most
>definitely.  I sometimes have a home network, and it sometimes causes very mysterious and
>sudden disturbances with my Internet connection, though my configurations are very simple and
>each works fine when the other is disabled.  They involve almost random connection problems
>and error messages, and neither I with my pretty laminated A+ and Network+ cards nor the ISP
>techies ISP can ever make any sense out of them.  They occur only when I try to run the home
>network using various configurations of TCP/IP.  That's one of the many reasons why, unlike
>some people who know more than I do on this list, I'm a big fan of
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