<p dir="ltr">This has been my experience with both Comcast and AT&T routers/modems. I actually ended up getting a programmable outlet, like you use to program lights, to turn them off for 5 minutes a day. Works fine then. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On May 1, 2013 10:55 PM, "Bob Kline" <<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Since I brought up the issue of losing <div>bandwidth for the last 4 or 5 days, let</div><div>me add just a bit. The downstream </div><div>bandwidth, using the <a href="http://speedtest.net" target="_blank">speedtest.net</a> </div>
<div>Detroit test point, hosted by Comcast,</div><div>has degraded by about 35%, and still</div><div>seemed to be going down. The upstream</div><div>bandwidth was more or less unchanged.</div><div>
<br></div><div>What to do? Why, power cycle! I mean,</div><div>why not? What can it hurt?</div><div><br></div><div>Doing that, everything came back, and</div><div>the bit rates up and down are what they</div>
<div>were a week ago.</div><div><br></div><div>So, how come? Other than the fact </div><div>that power cycling cured what was ailing</div><div>the bit rate, why should I have needed </div><div>
to do this at all? Something to do with</div><div>the modems interaction with Comcast?</div><div><br></div><div>Just curious. In the end I'll have to </div><div>power cycle in any case in the bandwidth</div>
<div>sags again, but if anyone has any thoughts</div><div>about this, please post them.</div><div><br></div><div> -- Bob</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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