FatDaddyWampus
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I'm in Las Vegas and pulling an IP address from Cox in Naperville Illinois. Why?
Was at a friend's house today relocating his CenturyLink modem and when we tried to run a speed test, it was trying to connect to Wichita, KS. I got home and the same thing was happening to me. I then noticed a 50.x.x.x IP address which is in Illinois. This is the first time I've ever been assigned an IP address NOT from Las Vegas (where I'm at). I contacted support and they of course blamed my "third party modem" that I've been using for years and suggested I get Complete Care for an extra $10/mo so they can maybe fix their DHCP servers? I'm not sure how my modem could decide to pull an IP address from the midwest. No, I'm not using a VPN and I'm on a Netgear CM1000 that apparently has the power to pull IP address from anywhere in the US.Re: Check out these modem levels...
When I got home tonight the useless Cox app was actually updated with "there's an outage in your area", then my internet went down (my neighbor's too) and after it came back up I did a speed test and got this: Then about 10 mins later I got this: Then about 2 hrs later I was back down to this: Looks like as everyone's internet was coming online, the network was getting saturated. It's probably time to just do another FCC complaint, because this doesn't reallylook like anything beyond Cox oversubscribing.Re: Check out these modem levels...
Modem has been up for 71 hrs (first post was about 21hrs). When I first posted my levels, I had a 2 way splitter in to knock down the signal (other port terminated), because I think 10dBmV is too hot for the modem, but the tech removed it. This has of course lowered my upstream levels, because the line has less attenuation on it now. Either way, MY connection to Cox is pretty solid, I'm just getting ** for bandwidth, but so are my neighbors and apparently everyone in "Area 7" of Las Vegas.
