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JasonLane
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Re: What does a solid yellow light mean?

Ok, when I got home the amber lite was flashing again. I rebooted and had no problem last nite getting on the net. From what I am learning here, I guess there was an extreme amount of traffic on comcast. I ran my virus scanner and trojan program...all was clean. I have had cable since last June and never saw the lite stay lit. I do get busy blinking when there is traffic but the solid lite was VERY strange. Thanks for the help and if it happens again I won't panic.

TelcoCable_X
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Long Valley, NJ

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It could have been that someone "hacked" into you. I have a friend who's into that kind of thing and I had him test it on my firewall / linksys router and zone alarm. The modem light went solid and stayed solid until my friend turned his "program" off.

Unless you actively talk on IRC, ICQ, or AIM, I doubt that anyone would want to do this to you though. But it is a possibility.

midranger4
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Levittown, PA

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Glad to hear your up and running again.

Firewall logs will provide an answer to your mystery should it happen again if you configure it to log all connections inbound/outbound.

Happy surfing