<p dir="ltr">Yep. It's all it's good for.</p>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 18, 2016 2:53 PM, "Jerald Sheets" <<a href="mailto:questy@gmail.com">questy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>The only thing I use their modem for is to hand me an IP. After that, I do everything else on a Linux box behind it. </div><div><br></div><div>Firewalling, VPN, port forwarding, you name it. I’d much rather the modem just be a dumb box and do all the rest myself.</div><div><br></div><div>—j</div><div><br></div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jul 18, 2016, at 11:18 AM, Chris Fowler <<a href="mailto:cfowler@outpostsentinel.com" target="_blank">cfowler@outpostsentinel.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr><div><blockquote style="border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(16,16,255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><b>From: </b>"DJ-Pfulio" <<a href="mailto:DJPfulio@jdpfu.com" target="_blank">DJPfulio@jdpfu.com</a>><br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Sunday, July 17, 2016 10:46:15 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ale] Need Cable Modem Recommendation<br></blockquote></div><div><blockquote style="border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(16,16,255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">On 07/17/2016 05:32 PM, dev null zero two wrote:<br>> iirc you can BYOM if you have a static IP.<br><br>This has not been my experience. They forced me to use their<br>modem/router. They do the BGP and manage the static subnet. Been on<br>biz comcast since 2010.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>They wanted $14.95/mon for their equipment. I just told them I would provide my own and did not need a static IP.</div><div><br></div><div>It has been my experience that their modems lack features. At my office we installed biz in 2012. That modem is nothing more than a bridge that services up DHCP and provides 4 static IPs. No logging. No way to see link quality, etc.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Ale mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org" target="_blank">Ale@ale.org</a><br><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale" target="_blank">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo" target="_blank">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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