Hosting A Server Behind Your Router Is Like Asking To Be Punched In The Throat

[Macheath]

Best Buy has the SB6141 for $110, compared to $85 (plus free shipping) at NewEgg. I'm going to be leaving town in a couple days, so it doesn't make sense to have it shipped right now. I'll mull things over while I'm in Wisconsin.

[Macheath]

Just ordered from NewEgg... it was $90 instead of $85. And now I check Amazon, and it's $78. I hate fluctuating online prices.

[Raid]

I had to call Comcast twice yesterday because of some major packet loss, like 30%, while I was trying to work from home and remote into my systems. They seemed super relieved when I replied to them that I owned the modem, which was no doubt the cause of the issues. About a half hour after the second call, right before I was going to go and buy a new modem, I did one more disconnect from the coax and reboot and everything started working just fine again.

[Drewbie]

Disconnecting the coax, touching the cable end and reconnecting has quickly become one of my first troubleshooting steps. I don't completely understand why I'm doing that, but hey, it works.

[Macheath]

It took a solid two hours of fucking around on the phone and driving to a local equipment center to return old modems (and get them wiped off my account), but I appear to be up and running again -- through a router, and able to connect to Minecraft (and presumably other games as well).

RESOLVED!

Of course, I may have fucked up my bill today and will be somehow paying more, we'll have to see.

[Threnn]

Disconnecting the coax, touching the cable end and reconnecting has quickly become one of my first troubleshooting steps. I don't completely understand why I'm doing that, but hey, it works.

With your tongue? I hear that is awesome!