I have a Motorola SB5101 cable modem connected via USB to a machine for internet access. Problem is, the stupid modem keeps freezing up. It started after three months, first once or twice a week, but eventually it grew more frequent, to the point that in the last 7 hours it happened five times. A google search turned up that this particular model doesn't get along with USB, but there is no way for me to connect it via an ethernet cable. Any suggestions?
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Anonymous2007-04-10 19:25 ID:mL6yO2Yu
get a new modem. that model is shitty and old as all fuck
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Anonymous2007-04-10 19:30 ID:EqENOOPg
Any suggestions that do not involve spending more money than I have?
also modems don't freeze, they reboot themselves, if the lights on your modem stay the same guess what? the modem is not the stupid one. if you bought that modem instead of renting from your isp, you're a moron, modem rental is between 2 and 6 bucks a month so you can afford that... and if that one stops working or upon your arbitrary request the isp will give you a new one free.
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Anonymous2007-04-11 13:47 ID:di91gUsd
>>also modems don't freeze, they reboot themselves
The lights don't "stay the same" - the PC activity light stops flashing and just... glows eerily. And the only way to get the connection back is to power cycle the modem (since it doesn't have a restart button and won't let me into its config interface). Also, I can't get an ethernet card, because the machine already has one - it is used for a home network to share the modem's connection so that I can get internet access on MY machine and post this little piece of text. So there you have it.
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Anonymous2007-04-11 14:15 ID:Vo22M1KW
>>12
You can put two ethernet cards in a computer, shitfuck.
>>15
that was advice from someone working at bestbuy yeah?
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Anonymous2007-04-11 23:47 ID:Vo22M1KW
BEST BUY:
WE'LL INSTALL YOUR USB EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE.
$5000 PLEASE.
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Anonymous2007-04-12 9:01 ID:Sa2pZ4A0
Okay, I bought another ethernet card (OEM), put it in the machine and windows failed to recognize it. When I tried installing the driver manually, the system hung up and now hangs up on windows startup whenever the card is inserted.
Damn, how come no one mentioned that it's probably overheating because modems have the shittiest cooling, and tend to gather dust in ther cavernous husks? Notably, Netgear routers tend to do this too.