Saturday, December 14, 2013

Comcast Motorola SBG6580 no internet fix

I noticed the last couple days that Comcast pushed a new firmware update to my router and we pretty much spontaneously lost internet connectivity.  It was really strange too, you'd get like 20 seconds of connectivity to the router and internet, and then BAM you'd lose your IP and couldn't even talk with the router.

Needless to say Comcast support was useless, reboot this, unplug that, etc etc.  The real issue seems to be that some setting from the old firmware was conflicting with the new firmware, so the fix was to use a toothpick to reset the router's settings.

result: internet bliss :)

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