[ale] Serious: Comcast Business vs Residential

[Justin Goldberg]

>From my experience and after reading various posts on the comcast forum,
you can actually use your own modem with a comcast static IP, but it still
have to be an smc model on their approved list. A tech once mentioned that
those models support radius. A different model _might_ give you more
bridging options, where you can disable dhcp and Nat and enable DMZ. You'll
never be able to do a l2 or l3 VPN; afaik that mode only forwards TCP and
UDP, so no GRE. Openvpn, maybe.

But it's always a hate or miss situation since they'll download new
firmware to your modem and you have to reach someone who is not reading
from a script and also is willing to do this.

Justin
On Nov 12, 2015 11:46 AM, "Horkan Smith" <ale at horkan.net> wrote:

> My understanding:
>
> If you need static IPs, yes, you need their modem.
>
> If you don't need static IPs, no, you don't need their modem.
>
> later!
>    horkan
>
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 11:33:29AM -0500, Chris Fowler wrote:
> > How committed am I to their cable modem? I'm working through issues at
> our office and their modem provides NO features for me. It is a SMC model
> with no logging. I simply can only see the current status. No static
> routes, etc.
> >
> > Can I buy my own modem for their business service?
> >
> > > From: "Alex Carver" <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>
> > > To: ale at ale.org
> > > Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 6:32:53 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [ale] Serious: Comcast Business vs Residential
> >
> > > On 2015-11-11 15:27, Chris Fowler wrote:
> > >> I do not think their business service is VoIP. At our office we have
> 4 phones.
> > >> They all go back to a box that connects to their cable service. I
> have a
> > > > working fax machine on a line and I am sure I've used a modem there
> on a line.
> >
> > > That box is an ATA to provide you an analog line on one side that
> > > connects to their VoIP system on the other side. You can do fax over
> > > VoIP with an ATA.
> >
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