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psychoticmilkman  ·  3325 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are your favorite television series and why?

Trying to list shows that haven't been mentioned yet (because Breaking Bad is possibly one of the best shows start to end, ever made!).

My all time favorites include:

MASH

Frasier

Angel

Mr. Bean

Carnivale

The Tenth Kingdom (miniseries)

More recent amazing shows I'm obsessed with:

Rick and Morty

BoJack Horseman

Mr. Robot





thenewgreen  ·  3325 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Not enough people know the show Carnival, it was a very good one. Too short lived. Good call. I'd like watch it again. "Brother Justin," still gives me the creeps.

psychoticmilkman  ·  3324 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yes! The visuals blew me away. Prettiest show about the Great Depression. And supposedly very historically accurate in regards to the costumes and sets.

thenewgreen  ·  3324 days ago  ·  link  ·  

kleinbl00, have you ever seen Carnival? As I recall, you come from a family of dust-bowl era Okies. You'd dig it. -though I'm pretty sure I recall conversing with you about it in the past ....

Maybe not tho.

kleinbl00  ·  3324 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Not yet.

This notification came through 2 minutes after Comcast activated my account in Seattle and 2 minutes before they told me it was only temporary because they've decided my MAC address belongs to someone else so they're turning it off again after 48 hours and I need to buy a new modem.

The Comcast adventure begins.

user-inactivated  ·  3324 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Why not just change the MAC address? Point you browser at the cable modem's IP address and I'm betting there will be a configuration page there, and that the MAC address will be one of the things you can configure.

kleinbl00  ·  3323 days ago  ·  link  ·  

1) I didn't think of that, because the MAC address is printed next to the serial number.

2) As it turns out, you can't do that anyway, but I appreciate the suggestion. I wish I had thought of that last night.

3) Much as I enjoy hating on Amazon, they did refund me the money, 11 months later. So I have a new-in-box one showing up tomorrow, which should be soon enough.

thundara  ·  3323 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If you're not using a router + modem combo, you can change the MAC on the router to whatever Comcast expects it to be. The modem can be set to act as a bridge and just forward along packets from the router.

I discovered this in August after plugging my laptop directly into the modem. Two routers later, it's still set to lappy's MAC address.

kleinbl00  ·  3323 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I shoulda asked you guys first. Unfortunately the only viable computers at the moment are Macbook Airs, which have no ethernet ports (and the modem isn't a router, nor is it wireless). Fortunately, Amazon is sending me a new one.

Comcast doesn't give a rat's ass about the router anyway, it's the modem they hate, and all sorts of internet warfare tells me that the SB6141 has an unalterable MAC address.

thundara  ·  3322 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Good luck. Even with all the correct configurations on my end, Comcast still usually takes an hour to actually give me an IP address. Sadly they're the only provider in my area that has contracts for less than a year.

kleinbl00  ·  3322 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Stupid thing is I've got a FIOS box on the house. Unfortunately Verizon sold their operations here to Frontier, which will charge you $59/mo for 30mbps and won't refund your money when your internet stone cold stops for hours at a time.

Comcast's hinkyness notwithstanding, at least it's on.