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I wrote a little bit ago about my writing a little service monitor script, OpenServerMon, yes, I know the name has changed already. Well, the reason I wrote the script initially is I wanted to be notified when my home internet service went down. Wouldn’t you know it, it worked…. A LOT!

Apparently, I put this thing into place right at the right time because my cable modem started to go on the fritz. My service shut off sometimes several times a day, and each time I was paged. Obviously, this means my script works great, however, I became quickly annoyed about my crappy cable modem, and it was only a year and half old. Well, tonight after resetting it twice, I finally hit Walmart, where I bought a nice Linksys cable modem.

To my amazement, this is the very first time I called Comcast and dealt with someone who wasn’t a complete idiot. I got a nice fellow in the phone who simply added my mac address and I was up and running. Now hopefully this will be the end to my home internet problems, and the annoying 3am pages about my service going down too!

Now as far as the OpenServerMon, I promise, I will be putting that up to share as well soon 🙂 I would really like to see someone else use/test it before I make it available to the masses though (if you want to beta for me, shoot me an email).