Yesterday morning I had a brief Internet outage without a corresponding power failure. About three minutes and I was back online, but I went to check the modem to see what was happening. Unfortunately Comcast hides all the cool stuff from you in the modem information interface while the modem is working properly, but when the connection goes down you can also see the logs, signal information, and current status.
Imagine my surprise when I saw a completely different header on the web interface. It went from Scientific-Atlanta to Cisco. (Of course SA belongs to Cisco and has for some time, so that wasn't really the surprise.)
I guess they pushed a new software version out to customers yesterday and it happened to have the new logos and such in it.
But what makes me have to laugh is the fact that they didn't bother to change the <title> attribute in the web interface: It still says "Scientific-Altanta WebStar Cable Modem". And no, "Altanta" is NOT my misspelling. That's exactly what it says, and it's exactly what it's said since I got this modem three years ago.
You'd think someone would have caught that by now.
Oh, and this is even better:
<META content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0" name=GENERATOR>
Sheesh.
