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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I’ve always preferred external modems to
internal – even back in the days when it was a regular phone line modem. You
can reset your external modem without rebooting your computer – sometimes internal
modems can only be reset by rebooting the computer they’re in.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Years ago I had a disagreement with a
major customer that was rolling out over 2,000 central systems my company was
going to support. They were going to go with internal modems because it would
save them $6/year in maintenance for each unit (units went to each site). I
noted that 2,000 x 6 is a fair amount of change but was really pigeon feed
compared to the overall maintenance cost they were going to pay and taking down
what would be the main unit at each site to reset the modem in the middle of a
support issue was silly. I lost the argument but ended up winning because the
client found another customer of Big Blue that had external modems which was
NOT having to pay the extra $6/year so forced them into dropping it from their
contract as well.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Rebooting a system when you’re trying to
troubleshoot an issue can also lose you valuable state information that might
help you prevent recurrence. Finally some issues are of the nature that a
reboot ends up shutting down but not starting up and you might have headed that
off by looking at the system before the reboot. Granted this is only an issue
for remote support but it helped crystallize my bias against internal modems.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
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ale-bounces@ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Michael Trausch<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Saturday, December 25, 2010
1:36 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [ale] Docsis 3 Modem
Recommendations</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>For a
standard net, yes. However it is the router in the case of my network (both the
public /28 and the private /24). I have a lot of nasty kludges in place so that
I can do things like VPN subnet routing which should have nothing to do with
the modem...<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>--<br>
Sent from my G2 running CyanogenMod!<br>
That is, a phone. :)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On Dec 25, 2010 1:22 AM, "David Tomaschik" <<a
href="mailto:david@systemoverlord.com">david@systemoverlord.com</a>> wrote:<br
type=attribution>
> On 12/25/2010 12:38 AM, Michael Trausch wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Honestly, what I would prefer if I could manage to find it would be an<br>
>> internal DOCSIS 3 modem. I *really* hate the external modem; it takes<br>
>> another friggin plug, when it could simply use the power from the<br>
>> computer, and it means more wires where there needn't be any, and it<br>
>> means that I don't have complete and total control of my bloody<br>
>> network. But I'm probably just being anal retentive here.<br>
>><br>
>> --- Mike<br>
>><br>
>><br>
> I just pretend that the modem isn't part of my network. And really,<br>
> it's not -- it's on the "untrusted" side of my router. No
different<br>
> than the equipment at the Comcast office except it's physically in my
house.<br>
> <br>
> David<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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