[RndTbl] My Shaw Broadband 50 turned into Dial-up

[Robert Keizer]

On 13-01-02 12:08 AM, Bradford Vokey wrote:
> Shaw techs are not available to come to my house until Sunday January 
> 6th!My download speeds are around 1.5 Mbps.
>
> Is it possible the modem has gone? Should I just demand a new modem to 
> see if it fixes the problem?
>
> From ifconfig eth0 (my nic to a Shaw Cisco DOCSIS 3.0 gateway modem)...
>
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:10:4B:2E:96:32
>           inet addr:24.78.229.87  Bcast:255.255.255.255 
> Mask:255.255.252.0
>           inet6 addr: fe80::210:4bff:fe2e:9632/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500 Metric:1
>           RX packets:228132147 errors:10935 dropped:0 overruns:14571 
> frame:10935
>           TX packets:137992608 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:2606397745 (2.4 GiB)  TX bytes:727274930 (693.5 MiB)
>           Interrupt:19 Base address:0x20c0
>
> In particular -> errors:10935 dropped:0 overruns:14571 frame:10935
>
> Is this just a major node congestion problem or a faulty modem?
>


Perhaps a network card kernel issue? What chipset are you using? Can you 
use another network port to test?

If all else fails don't restart the box, just login locally and do a 
modprobe off and on.. That'll atleast get one more thing out of the way.

Rob