[Tfug] Cable modem

[Calvin Dodge]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah, with the newest cable modems you have to yank the battery out of
> the bottom and REALLY power cycle the damnthing, otherwise it won't
> work with anything else but what it was connected to before.

Rather than "new" cable modems, I think it's phone-capable ones.
They're battery-backed so the phone will continue to work in the event
of a home power outage.

> Basic rule with cable modems: you have to power cycle 'em before
> switching devices, and it doesn't matter at all what the devices
> are...Windows, Mac, Linux, different router, different Ethernet card,

Very true.

Calvin