The connection was between a laptop from 2012 or so and dreampc from 2006   
   updated in 20xx whatever.   
      
   I was under the assumption that any UTP cable will work.   
      
   But maybe this is not the case.   
      
   A possibly hypothesis is that a UTP cross-over cable is needed, but I am very   
   skeptical about this !   
      
   Also I can no longer log into my UBEE 320b modem.   
      
   Something that is also annoying me about the internet is all these modem   
   versions and badly documented, this is the wireless version... and cannot find   
   a decent manual for it, manual does not even contain a picture to show   
   possible models. I did find one    
   manual, maybe it's the correct one but because I cannot enter the cable modem   
   I cannot see if it's the same.   
      
   Starting to wonder if I accidently used the cross over cable to connect the pc   
   and cable modem together, but I am pretty sure 100% actually it's a normal UTP   
   cable so that cant be the problem when it comes to this modem.   
      
   Meanwhile trying to figure out how to setup dynamic dns via software on pc...   
   spent hours on trying to understand this shit and still not done... so much   
   for simplicity.   
      
   Thank you Sylvia for responding. It was your hypothesis that an UTP cross over   
   cable may be needed for reliable operation. I remain skeptical. I see the   
   cable it has red connectors and is lieing in my cabinet unused.   
      
   Perhaps the HP laptop is too old to have gigabit ethernet... not sure if my PC   
   has gigabit ethernet...  yes it does.   
      
   However it has two ethernet port.   
      
   It's a winfast socket 939 motherboard. It has a second ethernet port, and I   
   think that ethernet port is only 100 megabit !   
      
   This could explain why that port is not working well, or sometimes it might.   
      
   However I think I tried to connect via all... and nothing worked.   
      
   So I suspect it's some kind of windows software problem. Maybe a route add   
   problem I did long ago... tunggle is also not working.   
      
   And visual studio 2017 community installer failed hard, can't even remove the   
   piece of shit... can't reinstall... installer repeatedly fails right at the   
   start... tried everything to remove this cancer of my PC it failed.   
      
   I did install it in a virtual machine with windows 10 just to see if it could   
   finally work. The problem is with .NET core so I did not install that.   
      
   Funny thing is it truely is cancer. Just for kicks I installed windows 10   
   updates and visual studio 2017 at the same time and it failed spectacularly...   
   Somebody needs to wake up the folks at redmond and tell them about this.   
      
   The point is it proves vs2017 is cancer and integrates with windows.   
      
   Anyway after this spectacular fail I reinstalled windows 10 again in the VM...   
   and this time took it step by step... copied the VM just in case it would   
   screw up again.   
      
   Finally VS 2017 did work somewhat... however it was useless for my purposes...   
   first of all would have to install android sdk or something and second of all   
   it would need GPU pass through drivers to actually test mobile phone apps,   
   which VM workstation 8    
   cannot do I think. I dare not install another VM workstation version... I need   
   my old virtualized windows to work if I ever want to access them. So let's   
   consider this my production computer and just cannot risk software company   
   installer fuck ups and    
   shit like that.   
      
   I do install software occasionally but usually thinks I feel confident about   
   or are small or will not have any impact on the rest or low risk.   
      
   Anyway enough about my technical rant ;)   
      
   Back to trying out this dynamic dns thing... kinda pissed I can't access my   
   cable modem.   
      
   Tried everything:   
      
   192.168.0.1   
   192.168.1.1   
   192.168.100.1   
   192.168.1.100   
      
   net masks    
   255.255.255.0   
   255.255.0.0   
      
   Tried resetting the modem with pushing the pin 15 seconds, took for it to   
   reset a couple of minutes.   
      
   Pull power on it multiple times.   
      
   Changed my adapter settings as described above.    
      
   Tried internet explorer, firefox and opera.   
      
   I have two explanations for this access failure:   
      
   1. Either I somehow fucked it up by setting the cable modem to bridge mode or   
   something crazy and somehow it completely lost the web interface. Or I put it   
   on a different port or ip address but I can't remember, the factory reset   
   should have taken care    
   for that ?!?!?!?!?!?   
      
   OR   
      
   2. ISP and/or UBEE have uploaded firmware to the cable modem and have DISABLED   
   web access and the  "stupid fucker" on the phone didn't know about it because   
   the modem is "old". But the fucker did have a screen where he could see that I   
   did have this    
   modem ?! So perhaps they did not document that it was disabled ?1   
      
   Yes I phoned my ISP something I rather not do... I did ask him explicitly if   
   it was disable and he SAID NO, we usually don't do that.   
      
   He also tried to access it remotely and reset it, but he could not do it !   
      
   So something strange with this cable modem is going on.   
      
   My best guess is it IS LOCKED out but ubee... or something hacked it and   
   destroyed the web interface. I can remember an incident where my cable modem   
   was remotely being resetted... so this is plausible.   
      
   It could also be a "cable modem" virus that is going around destroying web   
   interfaces via some kind of software exploit ?!   
      
   Anybody ran a virus scanner ever on a cable modem ?! ;)   
      
   I am happy with the cable modem though... it has served me well... is   
   quiet/noiseless...  no fan to collect dust etc. Did have to get a better   
   adapter with more coil otherwise it would overheat... because of increased   
   internet speeds.   
      
   Anyway... it does get a bit hot... but so far so good. The ISP guy did offer   
   me to send me a new cable modem some CONNEXT box or something.   
      
   To scare for me for now so I refused... going to try this dynamic dns client   
   and see how that works out.   
      
   Anyway thanks for caring... see you around ! ;) :)   
      
   Bye,   
     Skybuck =D   
      
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