Sussing modem speed/health

[frailer]

Am having slow-downs on my cable at home. Got onto Whirlpool Forums, where I got answers in minutes. I think I may be best to get a new Cable  Modem. Looks like a self-install should work. We are with our mega Telstra/Bigpond. Not perfect, and a bit too big for their boots sometimes, but it's been pretty good/ain't really broke; so shall continue.
Guru on forum asks me to suss out my Upload power and Download power, as well as Signal to Noise Ratio. I ask how to do this, and he says: Go to http:192.168.100.1
And there it is, the modem management info. Learn summin new every day. Is this universal? Or just for Motorola modems? The former, I suspect.

Gist seems to be that they age pretty quickly. Mine's been in about 5 years. I'm sick of unplugging it, and the router, waiting 3 mins, re-booting. But that works...for a while. Apparently they start discarding 64 Kb 'buckets' after a while, and slow down.   :undecided:

Trivia. According to Tim Berners-Lee...(what would he know...). the 2 forward slashes in IP addresses were always unnecessary. I.e. http:192.168.11.1 is the same as http://192.168.100.1.
According to the update of his wikipedia entry..."It seemed like a good idea at the time". Which is what the Sundance Kid said to Butch Cassidy.    :laugh:

Hmmm...I notice the one without the slashes isn't hot-linked. But that would be the site software setup, I guess.

[Joe]

192.168.100.1 is an internal IP address to your network. No one can get to it but you (because you are on the inside of your network) and most likely it is the LAN IP address of your modem. Most modems/routers have a built in web server for managing the modem/router settings which is what you found.

PS: Oh, and the "http://" is not necessary at the front but if you do put the "http:" then you do have to have the two "//".

[Chilbear]

Interesting post. 192.168.100.1 is valid at my end and does show modem stuff. This IP address as Joe said, must be hardwired as my network is 192.168.2.1 to 253.

[Joe]

I assume it (192.168.100.1) must be a device on your network somewhere. I get nothing at 192.168.100.1 or http://192.168.100.1. My IP address range is in 192.168.2.x as well. I do get my router config setup at 192.168.2.1.

[Chilbear]

192.168.100.1 does resolve and does show me Scientific Atlanta as the modem name which coincides with the cable vendor 's choice of hardware.

[frailer]

PS: Oh, and the "http://" is not necessary at the front but if you do put the "http:" then you do have to have the two "//".

I've tested:   http~colon~b4printdotcom, and it works without the double slashes. It seems to replace them, though, once it touches base and throws the address into the field.    :undecided:

Sorry, I must be a bit bored. My time would be better spent with Lynda(dotcom).   :embarrassed:

[frailer]

192.168.100.1 does resolve and does show me Scientific Atlanta as the modem name which coincides with the cable vendor 's choice of hardware.

Curious. Do you get some sort of tabbed interface for your Scientific Atlanta? As in able to check down/upload power...SNR etc...?

[Joe]

PS: Oh, and the "http://" is not necessary at the front but if you do put the "http:" then you do have to have the two "//".

I've tested:   http~colon~b4printdotcom, and it works without the double slashes. It seems to replace them, though, once it touches base and throws the address into the field.    :undecided:

Sorry, I must be a bit bored. My time would be better spent with Lynda(dotcom).   :embarrassed:

Yeah, it looks like they make the browsers add them in automatically these days. If you just enter the IP address it adds the "http://" for me too.

[Chilbear]

Curious. Do you get some sort of tabbed interface for your Scientific Atlanta? As in able to check down/upload power...SNR etc...?

Yes there is an option for sub menus but reports they are not enabled by the modem.

[frailer]

Ordered new cable modem yesterday. Can't wait for it to arrive. Have to unplug every 5 mins here. It's a heatwave today. 40+ C. predicted.

[frailer]

New modem in place and working well. Son unhappy with speed/reliability of router...so we now have an Apple Airport Extreme in place.  Whooosh!   :laugh:  Finally can concentrate on web content...not delivery.