<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—j</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 18, 2016, at 11:18 AM, Chris Fowler <<a href="mailto:cfowler@outpostsentinel.com" class="">cfowler@outpostsentinel.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__" class=""><div data-marker="__HEADERS__" class=""><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;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><b class="">From: </b>"DJ-Pfulio" <<a href="mailto:DJPfulio@jdpfu.com" class="">DJPfulio@jdpfu.com</a>><br class=""><b class="">To: </b><a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" class="">ale@ale.org</a><br class=""><b class="">Sent: </b>Sunday, July 17, 2016 10:46:15 PM<br class=""><b class="">Subject: </b>Re: [ale] Need Cable Modem Recommendation<br class=""></blockquote></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__" class=""><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;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">On 07/17/2016 05:32 PM, dev null zero two wrote:<br class="">> iirc you can BYOM if you have a static IP.<br class=""><br class="">This has not been my experience. They forced me to use their<br class="">modem/router. They do the BGP and manage the static subnet. Been on<br class="">biz comcast since 2010.<br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 class=""><br data-mce-bogus="1" class=""></div><div class="">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 class=""><br data-mce-bogus="1" class=""></div><div class=""><br data-mce-bogus="1" class=""></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">Ale mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org" class="">Ale@ale.org</a><br class="">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale<br class="">See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br class="">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>