Today.
I had been experiencing a vchannel problem on the dsl router. It was kinda like a DoS, but it was between the DSL Router/Modem and the head end. Each one saying "Hello... are you there?" each letting stuff through when they hear each other... through all of the chatter from them. I envision a who's on first type of thing.
Evidently it was a known problem... The 1 e-mail I had in my inbox that was new... the one I couldn't get from home, was from UU.NET (really mci/worldcom) to power down the router for at least 20 seconds. Then it should come backup and restart 3 times. All parts of a firmware update.
It only took about about 2 minutes, but that was a long 2 minutes in my book.
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