Jan 2009: all entries
   iTunes Dooad is rated Excellent!
   Troubleshooting cable modem

iTunes Doodad won an award today. It has been certified as "Excellent" by FindMySoft.com. They made me a custom graphic, too.

I can hear it already... some of you are you saying, "So what? That graphic was probably auto-generated by robot software". But hey, how many auto-generated robot graphics have been sent to YOU on behalf of a website you've never heard of? Mmm hmmm, that's what I thought.

But you know what, don't focus on the negative, man. If you are true to yourself, with a lot of hard work, you too can follow your dreams and have a robot stranger send you a graphic that you can post on your website. And that'll just be the beginning.

Ok yeah, I'm done. It's neato though, their website seems legit, has Google PR 5/10 so it's not some fly-by-night scam. But it doesn't take over my personal favorite "included in Japanese Mac magazine" success. They sent me 2 copies after they published it, couldn't read a damn thing.

Troubleshooting cable modem
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Jan 16, 09

I've been having issues with my cable modem, decided to do some digging. First, from within my home network, most cable modems will respond to this url:

http://192.168.100.1/

Mine has basic info, but I want to see Power and Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR), preferably both downstream and upstream. Quick Google showed me how to access the locked screens on my cable modem (WebSTAR DPC2100R2):

http://192.168.100.1/_aslvl.asp
set "Access Level 2"
login: admin
password: W2402

Then I could see Power and SNR numbers, for both downstream and upstream. If those numbers don't make sense to you, this is a good reference for cable modem signal levels.