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Why I quit this battle

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Re: Why I quit this battle

#21

I really appreciate the passion of this person. I truly hope they can feel proud, without any guilt.

I don't think he's going to be happy, given this:

"Badmodems.com is worth something, so, with medical expenses in front of me, its time to cash it in"

I think his efforts to publicize the issues with bad modems was worth something to modem users.

But there's nothing to cash in.

Re: Why I quit this battle

#23
post #5

The guy comes off as kind of childish and the people on the site he links appear to know what they're talking about which makes me a bit skeptical.

Yeah he doesn't seem to understand DHCP or what the difference between a gateway or a modem is.

Re: Why I quit this battle

#24
Looking through the site and the history around it, the level of obsession, the conspiratorial thinking, the grandiose claims of "defeating" Intel -- this guy probably needs help with some mental health issues.

Re: Why I quit this battle

#25
post #21

I really appreciate the passion of this person. I truly hope they can feel proud, without any guilt.

I don't think he's going to be happy, given this: "Badmodems.com is worth something, so, with medical expenses in front of me, its time to cash it in" I think his efforts to publicize the issues with bad modems was worth something to modem users. But there's nothing to cash in.

or worse, a player like Intel will buy badmodems.com and reenter the business

Re: Why I quit this battle

#26
post #21

I really appreciate the passion of this person. I truly hope they can feel proud, without any guilt.

I don't think he's going to be happy, given this: "Badmodems.com is worth something, so, with medical expenses in front of me, its time to cash it in" I think his efforts to publicize the issues with bad modems was worth something to modem users. But there's nothing to cash in.

> But there's nothing to cash in.

He's selling the domain name

Re: Why I quit this battle

#27

Looking through the site and the history around it, the level of obsession, the conspiratorial thinking, the grandiose claims of "defeating" Intel -- this guy probably needs help with some mental health issues.

The original issue he made this page to deal with was actually _that bad_

Re: Why I quit this battle

#28

Looking through the site and the history around it, the level of obsession, the conspiratorial thinking, the grandiose claims of "defeating" Intel -- this guy probably needs help with some mental health issues.

The original issue he made this page to deal with was actually _that bad_

Agreed. I was plagued by the issues with the puma chipset. I couldn’t figure it out, Comcast was clueless. I eventually found the threads on dslreports, bought a non-puma modem and all the problems instantly went away.

Re: Why I quit this battle

#29
I don't know the new context, but I will always be thankful to badmodems.com for highlighting the original Puma 6 issue.

I was given a modem by my ISP that had a Puma 6 chipset and it was a nightmare - it would completely cut out multiple times per day, latency was all over the place, and it was a truly terrible experience.

Doing a bit of digging I was able to short-circuit a lot of troubleshooting and replace the modem, which immediately solved the problem. It truly was negligent how bad those chipsets work - even for basic tasks it was nearly unusable.

Re: Why I quit this battle

#30
post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think he's going to be happy, given this: "Badmodems.com is worth something, so, with medical expenses in front of me, its time to cash it in" I think his efforts to publicize the issues with bad modems was worth something to modem users. But there's nothing to cash in.

> But there's nothing to cash in. He's selling the domain name

I would be surprised if that was worth much.
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