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I love hacking electronics, or at least thinking about it. I’ve had this particular thought before, but I never realized the beauty of it in action until now. Go to about 1:30 and watch from there if you’re impatient. The video is lengthy but shows just what a little Microchip PIC and some tinkering can pull off. Can you say “Machine Pistol?”

Via Hack a Day.

Does your cable modem suck? Do you randomly get booted from World of Warcraft, suffer from being knif…err “LAG!!!” in games like counter strike or team fortress 2? It could be your ISP sucks, or it could be your cable modem. But how do you know? Don’t call the company, use your modem’s built-in diagnostic webserver — http://192.168.100.1 — to troubleshoot a few things. This works on ALL DOCSIS compliant cable modems – it’s part of the standard as far as I know. Armed with the knowledge contained in this diagnostic website, you can tackle the big 4 suspects in flaky cable internet access: Signal, Splitters, Cabling and Connectors.

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