<div dir="ltr">Huh weird I meen I know that neither my cable model or wifi pizzapan from linksys as a cisco wifi pizza pan something plastic doodad. And for some reason had always ocasionally tried restarting the modem and pizzapan. And for some reason(ocassionally) I'll suddenly get better speeds again. And the claim I've read: well: it's 'homenetworking, finding a less congested bit of the network. And I always wondered: but is that actually the case. And if so, if people knew why. Or at the very least some sort of guess. So thought: ask here.<div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Sep 6, 2025 at 8:25\u202fPM Marcus Daniels <<a href="mailto:marcus@snoutfarm.com">marcus@snoutfarm.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I have FTTH and have a TGX remote desktop that stays up as long as my<br>
Windows machine does between updates (ahem). When it was first installed<br>
in the neighborhood, there were some growing pains, but they sorted it out.<br>
It is strange having to upgrade to non-volatile memory modules to get enough<br>
bandwidth for the internet connection. I use a parallel hpnsshd server on<br>
my end and transfer with (multithreaded) mscp. I can get close to a<br>
gigabyte a second. <br>
<br>
Latency: 2.41 ms (0.24 ms jitter)<br>
Download: 8089.34 Mbps (data used: 4.0 GB)<br>
Upload: 6934.43 Mbps (data used: 5.6 GB)<br>
<br>
Different from falling asleep while downloading files using Kermit from a<br>
BBS with my 300 baud modem. <br>
<br>
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Sent: Friday, September 5, 2025 4:25 PM<br>
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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Cable modem question...does turning it on and off<br>
actually help<br>
<br>
I'm on FTTC here (stopped using cable modems 15 years ago), and suffer<br>
frequent dropouts. Resetting the modem and router (they're separate boxes in<br>
this context) does help after each dropout.<br>
<br>
I don't know whether to blame the obsession with home renovations here, or a<br>
deliberate push to get us to upgrade to fibre (which presents its own<br>
problems), or whether the state of the copper wires have degraded that much<br>
in the last couple of years (they were fine for the first 3-4 years we've<br>
been on FTTC).<br>
<br>
Cheers<br>
<br>
On Fri, Sep 05, 2025 at 05:00:07PM -0600, Gillian Densmore wrote:<br>
> I got to thinking: Does turning a cable modem (and or <br>
> router)...actually do anything for quality(latency, and the fun of 200 <br>
> years just to check when monday night football starts.)<br>
> <br>
> It seems to but does it actually what I means is ok does it actually <br>
> do anything? and if so what and why?<br>
> <br>
> I don't know just curious!<br>
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