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I replaced the modem, as I was going to do.<br />
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From what I understand from your post, it was probably a bad solder joint, or other some such hardware defect.<br />
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Since your was the only reply, I award you all the points (and an &quot;A&quot; grade)<br />
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Thanks for your help.
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I replaced the modem, as I was going to do.

From what I understand from your post, it was probably a bad solder joint, or other some such hardware defect.

Since your was the only reply, I award you all the points (and an "A" grade)

Thanks for your help.

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I have a cable modem from TWC/Road Runner. &nbsp;I believe it's Motorola, but could be wrong (it's at home and I'm at work).<br />
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Every fifteen minutes or so it resets itself. &nbsp;It's been doing this for about a year, but never been a huge issue, just an annoyance. &nbsp;If I'm surfing, I might have to wait an extra 30 seconds. &nbsp;If I'm DL'ing, it's not long enough to drop the connection. &nbsp;But &nbsp;now I'm playing World of Warcraft and it's become a maddening experience. &nbsp;WoW apparently doesn't retry a ping. &nbsp;If the connection is lost for a few seconds, I get dumped out of the game.<br />
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I will be replacing the cable modem, but I'm wondering if anyone else had had the problem, if you know what causes it, and how to prevent it in the future. &nbsp;I don't think it's a heat related issue. &nbsp;There's plenty of air circulation where the modem is located.
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I have a cable modem from TWC/Road Runner.  I believe it's Motorola, but could be wrong (it's at home and I'm at work).

Every fifteen minutes or so it resets itself.  It's been doing this for about a year, but never been a huge issue, just an annoyance.  If I'm surfing, I might have to wait an extra 30 seconds.  If I'm DL'ing, it's not long enough to drop the connection.  But  now I'm playing World of Warcraft and it's become a maddening experience.  WoW apparently doesn't retry a ping.  If the connection is lost for a few seconds, I get dumped out of the game.

I will be replacing the cable modem, but I'm wondering if anyone else had had the problem, if you know what causes it, and how to prevent it in the future.  I don't think it's a heat related issue.  There's plenty of air circulation where the modem is located.

Cable Modem Recycling On It's Own

Networking hardware includes the physical devices facilitating the use of a computer network. Typically, networking hardware includes gateways, routers, network bridges, modems, wireless access points, networking cables, line drivers, switches, hubs, and repeaters. But it also includes hybrid network devices such as multilayer switches, protocol converters, bridge routers, proxy servers, firewalls, network address translators, multiplexers, network interface controllers, wireless network interface controllers, ISDN terminal adapters and other related hardware.