Mele20Premium
join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI
kudos:4 | reply to SpannerITWks
Re: 100% Security During Boot 4 Peanuts ! That's quite impressive but wouldn't it be easier to just get a Surfboard modem from your ISP and use the standby button (thereby cutting the connection between the PC and the modem and thus the Internet) when booting? Most cable ISPs will let you exchange the modem at anytime for any reason and most have Surfboards and all Surfboards have the standby button (except the Cybersurf doesn't but those folks are being switched over to DOCSIS now anyhow). I cut the connection every night and anytime I am away for very long. It takes a millisecond to reconnect..just touching the button turns off or on the Internet connection to the PC.
For folks with DSL that have the always on type connection they can probably benefit from your suggestion as I doubt there an equivalent to the Motorola Surfboard for dsl modems.
Further, I don't know about other modems but I have to boot the modem BEFORE the computer. If I were to kill the power to the modem during the computer boot and then plug the modem back in I would not be able to get on the Internet. Not to mention that it is even more tricky when you also have a router. Booting must be done in a particular order if you unplug either or both the modem and the router. So, I don't understand how your suggestion will help any cable modem users unless it just the Surfboard and just the Linksy router that have to be connected in a certain order.
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 Anonymous_AnonymousPremium
join:2004-06-21
127.0.0.1
kudos:2 | yes but the stand by can cause speed problems it happion to me when i had that modem the speed lowered to 400kbps i had to reboot the modem to get it at full speed |
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Mele20Premium
join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI
kudos:4 | Did it happen repeatedly? If just once it was probably coincidence. Thousands of users use that button and I have never before heard of anyone having the problem you describe. Perhaps you had a bad modem. I have had RR for four years and have used the button constantly on both the 4100 (two modems) and the 5100. I have never had a speed problem because of using the standby button.
Did you contact your ISP or Motorola about it? What firmware version were you using when this happened? Early firmware versions for the 4100 and 4200 had a major bug in them with regards to the standby button.
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 bmeleePremium
join:2004-03-25
Birmingham, AL | Actually, the easiest method is a double pole single throw miniature switch mounted in a RJ45 outlet box connected between the DSL line and the jack terminals.
Switch ON. Switch OFF. Simple, easy, cheap and doesn't look to bad either. |
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 novaflareThe Dragon Was HerePremium
join:2002-01-24
Barberton, OH | said by bmelee:Actually, the easiest method is a double pole single throw miniature switch mounted in a RJ45 outlet box connected between the DSL line and the jack terminals. Switch ON. Switch OFF. Simple, easy, cheap and doesn't look to bad either. Good simple solution.
And Spanner's idea is a set and forget solution. Alittle more complex but worth it in the end. My adition of the program controling com port that trips the relay should a proccess be closed or crash is even more set and forget and would amp up your security by a large ammount.
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