At 1:55pm -0400 Wed, 13 Aug 2014, Lawrence Bottorff wrote:
> AFA "did something," it was the Comcast tech who "did something" on his
> end. No Comcaster has seen or touched my machine.
Then this answers the first question to within a 95% confidence level
(for me anyway): the issue is entirely with the Xfinity. Good luck
convincing the tech of that, however.
> At this point I've noticed it simply seems to be a function of time:
> I wait, say, 15 minutes . . . and it suddenly works. All the while,
> though, the connection icon is lit, saying I'm good to go. But yeah,
> wait ten, fifteen and it works. Disconnect, reconnect, works
> immediately.
As someone else suggested, this sounds like a timeout; either a process
giving up, or a process finally being started. I'm reminded of the SySV
init sequence, where each process comes up one-by-one. If there was a
network hiccup, the boot sequence could hang for 5 minutes while the
script slept waiting for issue to (never) resolve.
> Could someone suggest a wifi router that would be compatible with an
> Xfinity XB3? I tried my old Quest PK5000, but it's a DSL modem.
I suggest that almost any wireless router you pick will work as the
issue is with the Xfinity wifi, not it's ethernet. The standard setup
would be this:
Internet <--> Xfinity <--> WifiRouter <--> your machine
where the Xfinity modem and WifiRouter should talk over an ethernet cable.
If you're looking for a wireless router that's less than crap, I'd pick
one that you could flash later. You don't have to flash it, but at
least you'll have the option to. OpenWRT maintains a list that may be
helpful to you:
https://openwrt.org/
-> http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/start
Like Mark, I'm a (proud?) owner of a WNDR3800. It works, and I don't
have to inspect it (but I generally cover my bases) to know that some
network issue is further up the line. It was ~$100 when I bought it;
not the cheapest, but a good middle-of-the-road option.
Good luck,
Kevin
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