<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><blockquote 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;" 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;"><b>From: </b>"Jerald Sheets" <questy@gmail.com><br><b>To: </b>"Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale@ale.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, July 18, 2016 2:49:34 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ale] Need Cable Modem Recommendation<br></blockquote></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><blockquote 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;" 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;"><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></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, same here.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>I do need to query the modem so it can tell me about SNR, etc on the coax.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>When you go back and forth with Comcast pointing fingers you need a way to SHOW them the problem. I've been down this road many times.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div></div></div></body></html>