Is anyone else having problems accessing SOME web sites?

[mhughes165]

x2,

the power cycle, and or power source removal will cause NO issues whatsoever.....i didnt sit through the most boring classes of Cisco Systems to come away with nothing

 

[Psychopete]

x2,

the power cycle, and or power source removal will cause NO issues whatsoever.....i didnt sit through the most boring classes of Cisco Systems to come away with nothing

Yes, power cycling is okay.

Physically pressing the "RESET" button on the modem is what will get you into troubles. As what was stated, in some instances, yes, the ISP will have to come back and reconfigure the modem. We'll usually go to a client's, as opposed to having them bring it back.

Pete

 

[Jspafford]

Follow what Samsonite says, but before you do the "ipconfig/release", type in ipconfig/all and see if it comes up with all 0's. If it does then it is definatly your internet/router.

 

[Sprag-O]

Yes, power cycling is okay.

Physically pressing the "RESET" button on the modem is what will get you into troubles. As what was stated, in some instances, yes, the ISP will have to come back and reconfigure the modem. We'll usually go to a client's, as opposed to having them bring it back.

Pete

Exactly... You don't want to being telling someone to reset their equipment without knowing what it was. I've supported Cable ISPs that had a weird ghosted MAC setup on their cable modems.

And Power cycling should almost always be okay, ('cept certain CSU/DSU equip, etc).

CCNA Certified too man

 

[4x4junkie]

When I said I "rebooted" the modem & router, it was by unplugging the power, then plugging it back in (1st the modem, then after it initialized, then the router). Made no difference at all at the time.

Right now at this moment everything is fine.
ipconfig/all showed some 0s on one ethernet adapter, but not the other (my 192.168.1.1 local IP and stuff was all there and filled in)

I'm a bit leary of hard-resetting the modem after some of the comments here, would the kind of modem help in determining if it has stored data that would get lost?

Its a RCA DCM 245 cable modem (on Time Warner)

 

[Twizzler09]

I think the guy who asked the original question is from california, and its not jsut him thats having that problem. I have that problem right now, actually. My homepage is set to google, when I opened IE and google didn't come up I thought something was wrong with my connection... took me a minute to figure out that nothing was wrong on my end of things....

 

[4x4junkie]

I think the guy who asked the original question is from california, and its not jsut him thats having that problem. I have that problem right now, actually. My homepage is set to google, when I opened IE and google didn't come up I thought something was wrong with my connection... took me a minute to figure out that nothing was wrong on my end of things....

This is interesting... Yep So California (San Fernando Valley area), although your location lists Illinois (you out here currently?)

 

[Psychopete]

If you had a 1.5mbps DSL connection per se on unprotected wireless, and someone were stealing it and download with torrents or file sharing software, that could cause the problem you describe. I've seen this with less powerful connections, I am not sure how cable and fiber handle large amounts of transactions. They can handle fast streams of data, but how well do they handle many many many transactions at once?
Even bad wireless signal, or ethernet cable between modem and router.

ISP could be having problems.

I only use ipconfig when I need to reinstate the IP address via DHCP, eg. like plugging a laptop ethernet directly into the wall while it's on. Or to check for an IP address when the networking is not working at all. Usually when a page never makes it to load, you refresh and it works, it would seem to me that you're dropping packets somewhere. Slowness would be a symptom of this as well.

When in doubt, try and run the computer directly to the modem then you can rule out your network itself.

Pete