The modem arrived, although it still hasn't shown up in UPS tracking as travelling anywhere, but that could be because it was shipped from 1450 E. Parham Ave, Richmond, VA 23228 - I live about 15 minutes from there, so I can surely see why it took over a week to get it to me
oh yeah, and I'm on my third reboot and power cycle the modem test, but all symptoms point to a dead Ethernet port on the new modem.
maybe I can sell the movie rights to this farce.
correction - it does work, but the port feels loose, so I wedged a popsicle stick in there until the light came on, hooked up my laptop and reset everything, now I'm getting a whopping 180/54 according to dslreports.com. Cavtel claims I'm on a 960/960 connection.
Anyone interested or just seriously lacking in entertainment can see an example of the line tests I've been running here:
http://www.dslreports.com/quality/nil/1808212
I've got the rest of the network still hooked up to comcast, and the difference is...well, it's just ludicrous that Cavtel is charging me for this shit.
Ok, I'm a geek, so I'm running line tests every 15 minutes or so, just to establish a pattern. I've also killed off what few remnants of my web presence exist on the Cave's servers, as well as checking one more time for anything that would be coming in on my cavtel.net address. So far it's been pretty much just spam, so I might have moved everything already.
Traceroute's still dying at the same place, and I wonder yet again if the network techs "fixed" my traceroute irregularities by intentionally dropping packets at that one IP. That would seem to imply that someone over there in the Cave knows how to do that. Call me skeptical.