Cable Modem acting weird!

Good morning all!

I have a strange one for you.

My cable modem sends and receives like crazy when it's completely unplugged from the network.

Now, I know that my cable company have scanners and monitors for their network, but would it really make my modem lights blink A LOT?

I'm worried that something is going out in it and it's destroying my internet.

I have noticed slowness while surfing the internet, downloading music and playing xbox live.

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Comments

Kaminsky

Could just be usual ISP traffic such as ARP, etc. If you are concerned, download wireshark and see what traffic is going across the interface.

tiersten

You sure it isn't just an activity on your shared cable segment?

MAC_Addy

tiersten wrote: »

You sure it isn't just an activity on your shared cable segment?

That maybe the case, since I live in an apartment.

I'm going to call my cable company to see if they can run diagnostics.

tiersten

Why is my modem activity light constantly flashing

MentholMoose

It's caused by broadcast packets, mostly ARP. Run Wireshark and check yourself, it only takes a few minutes (and you might learn something

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