jkeyes's Journal: Earthlink + Mozilla = not friends

As you can see by my earlier entry by all intents and purposes I was going to permanetly switch to Mozilla until I decided to change ISPs because my DSL which is provided by Cincinnati Bell started to suck major ass, here is what has happened over the past month. First the email server goes down for 24 hours, than a week later the DSL modem is kicking me off for god knows what reason so I call up tech support and they agree to put in a work order for me to exchange my modem at a Cincinnati Bell store, I go down there and swap the modem and get home and everything is working okay until I notice that I no longer have a dial tone. So I go to a pay phone call 611 and get someone to come out TWO DAYS LATER anyway they come out and they're like it's inside so we're going to have to charge you again that's okay they get inside and they trace it to, the modem, yes the new modem that the idiots at CB rebuilt incorrectly had put a short on the line the guy went and said there'd be no bill since I was like it's your fault you had to come! and he had them send out a DSL Guy (apparently they don't trust the regular phone guys with the DSL equipment, the phone guy doesn't know why either) who swapped the modem and everything worked well. Then later the SAME night the DSL goes down for two hours and that's when it's decided to change to Cable. Earthlink for cable is the same price as DSL and is faster and is apparently WAY more stable. Anyway after applying for it online it allowed me to setup my Earthlink account which is nice because I can now change all of my email address and I have access to earthlink dialup if I need it. Anyway everything on Earthlink works with Mozilla except of course the start page which I wanted to use so I said screw it and I'm using IE again. The funny thing is that on Earthlink's network status page they have a note under personal start page that it won't work on Netscape 7.5 or lower, my question is there's a 7.5?

Cable modem "stable"? I wish.

[perfessor multigeek]

Well, I've had a cable modem for about a year now (in NYC, through TimeWarner subbing for Earthlink, using a Macintosh) and I have to reset my IP about four times a week, restart the modem about once every two weeks, call Earthlink and have them refresh the modem about once every two months, and so on.
My estimate is that I spend an average of about an hour and a half PER WEEK keeping my setup going. With all the reboots, resets, unplug, plug in, wait for blah, blah, blah I have found this beast far from "st

Re:Cable modem "stable"? I wish.

[jkeyes]

Thanks I hope it all works okay I'll probably post when I get changed over Wednesday, I'm shocked that someone's reading my Journal! This is scary :)

-Michael