Questions tagged [modem]
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Physical stats of cable modems
I am interested in what physical stats are available for cable modems and what they say about that modem.
I can think of the that sound important to me:
The ability to cope with strong or weak signals. Usually modem connections suffer when the…

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How to use two different ISP on same LAN with one Ethernet switch?
Sorry if same question is asked on Stackoverflow. I searched and tried some configuration but are not working in my case.
I have a LAN with 6 machines which are on same network (each other can be accessed using name and IP Address). I was using…

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How to replace a hardware modem by virtual modem
I have an embedded device that is connected by an old dial-up modem to
the Internet. I cannot change the embedded device but would like to
connect the embedded device to a Linux machine that has an Internet
connection. The Linux machine has a…

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Gateway/Modem overload when running a web spider
Problem: All other devices on the network experience serious lag and timed out web pages, email, chat dropping, etc while this is running.
This is a cross post from stackoverflow, I may have used the wrong site!
Details:
Using libcurl for…

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How to connect a /dev USB modem in an LXC container?
I've been struggling with various tutorials to hook up my /dev/ttyACM0 in a lxc container.
Basically I've tried adding the following line in my lxc config :
lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 166:* rwm
And the following one too (both with relative and…

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Windows Server 2012 RRAS/NAT with PPPoE Modem
I'm trying to connect to a BT Openreach VDSL Modem with Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials, I have RRAS with NAT set up.
My server looks like this;
NIC 1 - Into a TP-Link Switch to connect a myriad of devices (computers, access points, etc..)
NIC 2…

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Minicom Successive Address Dialing
I've been tasked with writing a script for the minicom connection utility that tests a series of numbers in its dialing directory, I have found the baked in scripting language to be near useless. I've been trying to use the shell launch syntax to…

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One router and one modem+router. Can I pass a static IP range from one to the other?
I had been running a Huawei HG612 connected to a DD-WRT router for internet services using PPPoE as authentication.
Due to an office move, I need to have a DG834 modem+router which will be used for connecting to a PPPoA network. After that, the…

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Why won't mutliple identical 56k fax modems work in Windows?
I've just installed two identical fax modems into a Windows Server 2003 Standard server and for whatever reason, the first one works fine and the other doesn't. They both create virtual COM ports and using SysInternals PortMon, I can see that…

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Connect from firewall to Cisco 877 in Bridged mode
I have a Cisco 877 in bridged mode acting as an ADSL2 modem only. My firewall is doing PPPOE and the internet works great.
What I would like to do is give vlan1 on the Cisco 877 an IP address e.g. 10.10.10.1/24 and then give my firewall a secondary…

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Server is pingable on some ips but not on others
We have comcast business class internet with 5 static IPs. 4 out of 5 of them are assigned to a server that sits right behind the smc. The smc has DHCP disabled so it should be in pass through mode.
Everything was working fine this morning, but…

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usb_modeswitch not switching
After I upgraded from kernel 2.6.18 to 3.5.3 modeswitch started not to work for me. Although lsusb shows my usb modem, usb_modeswitch does not switch it. My system information is like below. I ran lsusb, dmesg, usb-devices and usb_modeswitch their…

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how would it be possible to discover a cable modem's MAC remotely?
i was reading the back archives of a canadian privacy law blog, and he linked to a judicial decision. apparently as part of an investigation in which were used yahoo chat and google's old 'hello' image trading program the officer was able to…
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Replacing modem with a vpn router
Can I replace an open network iconnect 624 modem with a cisco router in a small network that needs multiple PPTP VPN connection? iconnect 624 modem doesnt allow multple simultaneous PPTP VPN channels? So if i replace this modem with a cisco 881…

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256k speed connection to host multiple users
I've been given a 256k modem for a 2 day event to allow users access to the internet. There will be multiple connections (I anticipate 30+). How can I set this up so that it can support that many connections at once or what are some other ways to…

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