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Old 10-14-2013, 08:56 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by ishoot308 View Post
Just get an on off electrical timer. Set it for a 10 minute on off cycle say from 1:00 A.M. till 1:10 A.M. Plug your modem into it so it resets your modem every night. A power cycle should reset your modem as it does mine.

That's what I now do on the island since I can't get out there to reset.

Dan
Yes, this.

You could get a UPS for the cable modem, but it might not last through a long outage, and the problem might also be that the modem needs to be reset AFTER power has been restored at the cable head-end. The timer solves those problems cheaply.
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