[TriLUG] Own your own cable modem?

[William Sutton]

I'm on my 3rd Linksys in 11 years.  One of them cooked in the moving van. 
The other died for no explicable reason.  I figure I'm probably ahead of 
the game after all these years.

William Sutton

On Thu, 17 Nov 2011, matt at noway2.thruhere.net wrote:

> I don't recall a line item for the equipment charge either.  Years ago,
> when my mother decided to abandon dial up and go with cable, she bought a
> Toshiba cable modem from a local BB.  It saved about ~$5 per month at the
> expense of the $100 modem.  Unfortunately, the modem died in about 6
> months and she decided that if they fail at that rate to go with the one
> from the cable company.  At the time it was Adelphia, which has since been
> assimilated into TWC.
>
> So far, I have seen about 2 cable modem failures in about 8 years and 6
> modems.
>
>> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Igor Partola <igor at igorpartola.com>
>> wrote:
>>> I use my own Motorola modem. You get a $5/month break (or rather you
>>> don't
>>> have to rent a modem from them for $5). It is a 20 minute phone call to
>>> set
>>> up the modem. Then you have to take the rented one to a service center.
>>
>> My TWC bill does not itemize any equipment rental, just a single line
>> for internet service.  Is there any published info on how much it will
>> reduce my bill to use by own modem ?
>>
>> Bill
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