For the past few months, my cable modem (an RCA DCM425, provided by Mediacom) seems to reset itself on its own fairly frequently. I've been logging this and it'll be as often as 12 resets in an hour, though it'll sometimes go for a couple hours. When it's working, speedtest often shows around 5 megabits/sec down (though often under 1!) and just a few up (to be expected, I suppose.)
My home network is fairly basic, it's the cable modem plugged into a Netgear WGR614v9 which has a couple devices attached to it -- my main box, a network camera, formerly the xbox, and another machine that I rarely use anymore. The OS on my main machine is Debian 7 (for 64 bit AMD)
I've tried bypassing the router and even attempted to replace the modem a few months ago, but it hasn't helped and in the last few days it's gotten dramatically worse. Tech support has proved useless as they tell me things like "turn it off and then on again!" which is exactly the problem, and the last time that a tech was out here, he looked at the line signal and couldn't find anything wrong.
So, I'm stumped, and stuck with a pretty poor connection.
Information from 192.168.100.1, as requested:
Status Code: Operational
Software Version: ST52.05.91
Software Model: a806
Bootloader: 2.1.6d
Forward Path
Signal: 135 MHz
SNR: 37.5 dB
Received Signal Strength: -0.6 dBmV
Bit Error Rate: 1.090%
Modulation 256QAM
Return Path
Frequency: 26MHz
Power level: 39.7 dBmV
Channel ID: 3
Modulation 16 QAM
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