[ale] Serious: Comcast Business vs Residential

[Jim Kinney]

On Fri, 2015-11-13 at 10:33 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> As an aside, I have att Uverse. My internet went out yesterday..
> Called. Recorded message said network outage. That was 1pm.. I called
> back at 4 and got the id10t at the call center, who couldn't reboot
> my router so they made an apt for this morning. He replaced my ngv589
> with a newer ngv599. Now my dell laptop can connect wirelessly.
> Before it would connect then instantly drop. I thought it was th
> brain dead Broadcom card, so I just stayed connected via wired port.
> Now wireless works!!! And I have my tv.phone.internet back..
Network failed. Called help.
Wireless now works with new gear.
Failure can be good.

> Sent from my iPad

> On Nov 12, 2015, at 2:02 PM, Justin Goldberg <justgold79 at gmail.com> wrote:> 

> > 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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