# Who's Got Cable Internet, and What's It Like? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 5, 2002, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-got-cable-internet-and-whats-it-like/117469 "2002-07-05T08:15:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2002, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-got-cable-internet-and-whats-it-like/117469/21 "2002-07-06T22:50:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JohnBckWLD \* > One thing I’ve noticed (and was going to post it to “About this message board”: > > The SDMB pages load MUCH faster with VERY FEW “can’t find server messages” when accessed via AOL’s server as opposed to Internet explorer via our Cablevision NY provider. That’s probably because AOL caches a lot of pages on its own servers. If you ever see a page that seems out of date, that’s why. IIRC, to force AOL to re-fetch a page, you have to press “ctl” and “reload” at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![DougC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@DougC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougC)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2002, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-got-cable-internet-and-whats-it-like/117469/22 "2002-07-15T14:43:46Z")
- - - Well, it wouldn’t get on late yesterday, late last night, early this morning or late this morning so I called support and found out two things: - Because Windows sometimes doesn’t obtain and release resources correctly, the modem sometimes needs rebooting itself, and to do that you have to power off the PC and also unplug the cable modem for 30 seconds or so before plugging back in and restarting. -The cable modem has an “on/off” switch on top, but that’s a standby mode, not an actual power switch. - If your cable internet is defective for a hardware reason such as a cracked cable line, usually the higher-numbered digital cable TV channels won’t come in either/also, but the lower-numbered ones may… - DougC ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2002, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-got-cable-internet-and-whats-it-like/117469/23 "2002-07-15T19:02:43Z")
I had AT&T cable internet access for a year and dumped it. It would go down for days at a time and it would take hours on the phone once it came back up to get them to credit my bill for the downtime. We have DSL now - no problems at all yet (6 months) Keeping my fingers crossed! ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2002, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-got-cable-internet-and-whats-it-like/117469/24 "2002-07-15T19:17:34Z")
I had a few problems at the beginning due to bad cable wiring. When that was corrected it’s been (mostly) smooth sailing so far. What’s it like? Digital crack! ---
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2002, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-got-cable-internet-and-whats-it-like/117469/25 "2002-07-16T14:21:02Z")
Had Comcast cable modem- super speeding, and after some intial quirks, super relaible. Moved, and the new house has an Adelphia cable modem set up going in. Mmmm, speedy. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-got-cable-internet-and-whats-it-like/117469.md?page=1)