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by SteveSr
Sun Sep 21, 2025 11:16 am
Forum: General Broadband Forum
Topic: Spectrum - Tons of ReCapthas & Blocked Websites
Replies: 7
Views: 7071

Re: Spectrum - Tons of ReCapthas & Blocked Websites

As for the original issue...

The Spectrum modem is apparently locked. However, I did find the user manual and tried the factory reset. I factory reset the modem and left it disconnected overnight. Plugged everything back in this morning and still have the same IP address.
by SteveSr
Sun Sep 21, 2025 11:11 am
Forum: General Broadband Forum
Topic: Spectrum - Tons of ReCapthas & Blocked Websites
Replies: 7
Views: 7071

Re: Spectrum - Tons of ReCapthas & Blocked Websites



Thanks! I was an intermittent original DSLR member and now see that they have gone tits up.

Any news what happened there? I saw Justin (or someone else) brought the homepage back up, but nothing else, haven't followed closely. Sorry to see DSLR go, forums had so much collective knowledge ...
by SteveSr
Sat Sep 20, 2025 9:16 pm
Forum: General Broadband Forum
Topic: Spectrum - Tons of ReCapthas & Blocked Websites
Replies: 7
Views: 7071

Re: Spectrum - Tons of ReCapthas & Blocked Websites


Most residential ISPs have a pool of IP addresses, and you get assigned some address at random. If your cable modem remains offline for a period of time (until the DHCP lease on that device expires), your IP goes back to the pool, and you will be issued a new IP next time your device comes online ...
by SteveSr
Sat Sep 20, 2025 8:23 pm
Forum: General Broadband Forum
Topic: Spectrum - Tons of ReCapthas & Blocked Websites
Replies: 7
Views: 7071

Spectrum - Tons of ReCapthas & Blocked Websites

Hello,

I recently returned from a 2 month hiatus during which time I put my Spectrum account in seasonal pause (vacation mode).

I recently returned and now have literally TONS of ReCaptcha challenges for most websites and some that are completely blocked. So far I have noticed issues from:

Google ...