GET THE FIREWALL. Even without cable hookup,I get attacked alot with people trying to hack in with a Trojan horse. I hate to say, but most time is when I am surfing these boating forums.

FIREWALL???? We don' needs no stinking firewall!!!! And I didn't know there were RULES to using the cable. Oh, I get it. You mean the cable is neato-keen. I'm a little slow these days, being all hopped up on vicodin.

HEY CRAZY my wife gets the itches when she is on vicadin how about you? How are you feeling? How are the knees?

Just got cable-modem this month. I love it; feel like that commercial: "You have reached the end of the interenet."

Tinkerboater,

How do you test your speed? I feel that my system has slowed down since the conversion from Excite to Comcast and I wanted to check just to make sure.

I have a router/hub hooked to my cable, this allows me to share my connection with 4 computers. It also creates sub IP addresses which hides your true IP addres and works as a firewall. Cable Rules!

mine will be hooked up tomorrow

ON THE BAY Here is the linkspeed test

Thanks for the link, as I suspected 873 was the average of my tests well below what it should be. You can bet I will be on the phone in the AM.

Thanks again,

On The Bay