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Thanks for the informative post. My company relies heavily on our broadband cable access, and as Technical Director I am responsible for maintaining a secure and reliable network for our employees.

Information like this helps us by giving us a little more leverage with our service provider. Instead of "Hi, this is 'blah blah' my cable modem seems slow today" and the resulting "We'll send a technician out tomorrow", I can say "Hi, this is 'blah blah'. I just noticed a sudden network slowdown and it looks to me like somebody on my subnet might be hacking their cable modem. Could I speak to a network administrator?"

Information like this can help reduce network downtime from the typical day or two expected from a cable company to an hour or so and save thousands of dollars in lost profits and wasted time.

Adam Wheeler
Deluxe Business Machines

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