[ale] OT: Comcast modem

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

Sounds like a fascinating way to steal internet service.  They do operate millions of dollars worth of infrastructure and pay over a hundred thousand employees to get those bits to and from your door (and everyone else's).  I'm sure that, if everyone used double their bandwidth quota without paying, everyone's service would degrade and costs would go up.

Sincerely,

Ron


Richard Bronosky <richard at bronosky.com> wrote:

>I have owned 3 Motorola cable modems. They die after about 2-3 years in
>my
>area. I bet using a surge protector would have saved them though. What
>it's
>cool about owning your own modem it's that if you call them up and tell
>them you have issues with your current modem and want to try out a
>different one, they'll connect both to your account. Then a dd-wrt
>enabled
>router can bond/aggregate them. I'll leave it to your imagination to
>consider the possibilities. I will just say that I am not being charged
>double.
>
>
>Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S3 using the Swype software keyboard.
>--Richard Bronosky
>On Feb 11, 2013 11:35 AM, "Scott McBrien" <smcbrien at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> About two years ago I replaced my rental with a $75 Motorola
>Surfboard I
>> bought from Amazon.  It's Docsis 3.0, but doesn't have integrated
>wifi or
>> anything fancy, as I wanted to be able to use an access point of my
>own
>> choosing.
>>
>> Activating it with Comcast was surprisingly easy.  I called up, told
>them
>> what I wanted to do, they routed me to someone who knew what they
>were
>> doing.  He asked for the serial number, and because I already had it
>> cabled, he sent some reset signals and we were done.  That was the
>last
>> time I talked to them...about cable modems ;-)
>>
>> -Scott
>>
>> On Feb 11, 2013, at 9:35 AM, Edward Holcroft <eholcroft at mkainc.com>
>wrote:
>>
>> All,
>>
>> I have been paying Comcast to rent a cable modem for the last 6 years
>and
>> have realized I could've owned several for the money I've handed to
>them
>> over the years.
>>
>> Has anybody got some advice? What's the best way to go about this? Is
>it
>> essential to have a "Comcast approved" device or will any cable modem
>work?
>>
>> Are there any changes in the pipeline that I need to be aware of for
>a
>> purchase I make now e.g. IPv6? Is there a single "no-brainer" modem
>that I
>> should buy? Or alternately, Is there any equipment that I should
>avoid?
>>
>> cheers
>> ed
>>
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