HardwareBanter - View Single Post - Mysterious internet/ethernet issue (kinda need testing/connection/communicationservice to diagnose it ???)

**Char Jackson** · October 12th 18, 09:45 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 11:10:30 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

My hypothesis for now is:

The 69 million dropped packets may have been an incident or some other case, maybe PC too slow occasionally.

Kinda wanted to now if this was sporadic or constantly...

This is why I would like to get into the cable modem's log to see it with my own eyes to see what is going on.

Get your own modem, if your ISP allows it. Then you can see what's going
on inside.

Anyway...

Tonight and maybe tomorrow night I will try and scan a certain 10.x.x.x ip range since this is supposed to be the public ip ranges of these cable modems.

In an attempt to find my cable modems IP.

You aren't likely to find anything in the 10.x.x.x/8 range. You'd have
to do the scan from inside the ISP and at the moment you're only a
customer. They are seriously misconfigured on their end if they give you
access to that range.

Or perhaps a better idea, phone the ISP... ask them the IP address of my cable modem

Once and for all, is it a combo unit or a simple modem? Log into it and
see. Paul and I are guessing that it's a combo unit but you can confirm
it easily enough. Just log in and look around. It'll be obvious.

... but for me it's kinda more fun to perform a scan just to see if that works or not. Since it will be at night not too much of a big deal for me... except system collecting some dust... Maybe I ll try even both not sure yet.

Use a bit of caution. Some network administrators don't like having
their networks scanned. Most will put up with it because such scans are
so common these days, but now and then an admin will push back.