Rebooting your modem smacks of hardware failure… if that is the real reason for rebooting.
Usually these things run forever. The ISP can lock stuff up if they do something really weird, but it’s unusual.
Is your modem old?
Greg
Greg Elmassian said:
Rebooting your modem smacks of hardware failure… if that is the real reason for rebooting.
Usually these things run forever. The ISP can lock stuff up if they do something really weird, but it’s unusual.
Is your modem old?
Greg
Its relatively brand new wireless modem Greg, and a brand new laptop. The disconnection is most definetely coming from the service provider side, ATT keeps dropping the service connection then I have to then reconnect to the system. It was doing this BEFORE I got the wireless modem and before on my OLD XP desktop. I think its ATTs subversive way to try and force us to purchase there latest greatest internet service that they keep bugging us to get, that just happens to be more than a bit more expensive than our current service.
But I have been getting more than usual spam emails this last week. Its possible there service is being overloaded and crashing, resulting in my loss of connection …or it could also be the squirrels stuffing their nuts into the service pole boxes again, yes that happens here.
A lot of stuff can be blamed on Squirrels … Human, and otherwise,
I didn’t get a spoofed email from Ric.
But a week or so ago Ken got a spoofed email from me.
I’m pretty sure my computer wasn’t the source of the problem.
I have 3 different email addresses and they are all in each other’s contacts.
I didn’t receive the bogus email myself.
Ralph
In the mid 90s when the “I love you” virus was spreading around, nobody sent me a copy. What? Nobody loves me? 
Ralph Berg said:
I didn’t get a spoofed email from Ric.
But a week or so ago Ken got a spoofed email from me.. . .
Ralph
The ‘spoofed’ emails don’t necessarily come from a compromised user computer. A few months ago, the folk in my contact list on AOL got a spoof/advert, and it turned out that AOL’s mail server had been hacked and user contact files had been copied. AOL finally apologized.
Pete, yes that’s what happens a lot of the time. It would be nice if those resourceful folk, who wrote that stuff, would either put their talents to more productive ends, or get their buts thrown in jail.
Greg Elmassian said:
Rebooting your modem smacks of hardware failure… if that is the real reason for rebooting.
Usually these things run forever. The ISP can lock stuff up if they do something really weird, but it’s unusual.
Is your modem old?
Greg
Used to be, I OFTEN had to reboot my “MyFi” dealey. It was rather unreliable and I didn’t much like it, but it was all I had. I mentioned it to a guy at the cellphone store. “Oh. here’s a number to call. They’ll probably send you a new one.”
They didn’t send me a new one, instead, the lady on the phone told me how to update its software. Since then, the thing has been nearly perfect, even here on the edge of Tulsa. Runs days and days without any attention, it just does its job.
Getting emails seemingly from self is old ! A definite delete,
without even opening it !
“…the lady on the phone told me how to update its software. …”
As part of setting up any new electronics based product I always visit the manufacturers website and chk to see if they already have a device manager file upgrade to upload onto the computer systems the product is to be integrated with, or in the surprising case of say a DVR, a firmware file upgrade which ya load onto the DVR itself via burning the upgrade file onto a disc, then following instructions veeeery carefully.
doug c
…or it could also be the squirrels stuffing their nuts into the service pole boxes again, yes that happens here.
Its usually the Nigerian Millionaires e mails I get…
I got a phone call the other day informing me that I had won 3rd place in Publisher’s Clearing House.
'Twas a scam. Bummer. Could have use the money.
Hey, I just won a prize from the Publisher’s Clearinghouse. 
I got a check for $10 
David Maynard said:
Hey, I just won a prize from the Publisher’s Clearinghouse.
I got a check for $10
That’s $10 more than you had yesterday
Vic, yea, that’s true. Now if I could only stay away from online auctions, I might actually keep it.
Great whooping deal, what about those millions that need to be transferred? That’s where the “real” money is, trust me!
Hans, yea, well that’s why I keep entering the PCH sweepstakes. I could buy a few nice trains with a Million dollars.
Well, I done did it. I put in some bids on an online auction. So much for that $10
My password at Chase just won $500! All I have to do is confirm it!
WooHoo check is in the mail!
Too bad the loco I don’t need is out of stock!
John Caughey said:
Too bad the loco I don’t need is out of stock!
Yea, I have seen a lot of locos I don’t need out of stock lately.