[ale] Xfinity Modem -- lease or buy recoomendations

[H P Ladds]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Byron Jeff <byronjeff at clayton.edu> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 01:04:31PM -0400, H P Ladds wrote:
> >    On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 1:27 PM, Jeremy T. Bouse
> >    <[1]jeremy.bouse at undergrid.net> wrote:
> >
> >      Xfinity doesn't own any of the equipment in my
> >      house except the 2 CableCARDs in the back of my TiVo units.
> >
> >    Ba ha ha ha
>
> I'm getting there. Started off with DVR, 3 satellite STB, and wireless eMTA
> internet gateway.
>
> The STB are flaky and expensive ($10 a month rental). Promptly ditched 2 of
> them replacing with 2 HDHOMERUN Primes giving 6 tuners that MythTV can
> record.
>

MythTV was my gateway drug to Linux and OS geekishness. I finally gave-up
on it when:

(1) It was thought that the cablecard was going to be the death of MythTV.

(2) My pcHDTV / FX5200 cards kept screwing up somehow. (In retrospect, I
believe the problem was some sort of IRQ shuffling on reboot.)

(3) My wife thought the TIVO worked better -- which it did.


> As I said before the integrated wireless is pretty bad too. Swapped out
> with a TM822G and a T-Link Archer C5 AC1200 triple antenna wireless router.
> Both in total cost me less than 1 year's rental on the wireless gateway.
>
> So I still have the DVR, as a part of my deal, and 1 extra STB that I'm
> still trying to figure out how to control with LIRC so that I can use it to
> start recording premium content using the older Hauppauge HDPVR 1212 that I
> bought a while ago.
>
> I can't drop the triple play until my intro deal runs out and I collect the
> $300 gift card signup bonus. Then I'll kick the phone to the curb and
> switch back to Callcentric fronted by the permanent number under Google
> Voice. Callcentric is better because it allows you to set the outgoing
> CallerID and map numbers to favorite incoming callerID. For $4.50 a month
> including E911 service, not too bad.
>
> BAJ
>
> >
> > References
> >
> >    1. mailto:jeremy.bouse at undergrid.net
>
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> Technology
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