[TriLUG] Own your own cable modem?

[Reginald Reed]

I've had the 30x5 service for about 6 months and the installer put me
in bridged mode before she left my house.

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Stephen Bryant
<stephen at stephenbryant.net> wrote:
>> My brother got wide band for about a day and a half.... They put their own
>> wifi docis 3 router in, and they won't let it bridge to your firewall.  So
>> if you have a firewall of your own you want to run, it's behind their nat'd
>> wireless router.  So you would end up with double nat behind your firewall.
>>  Not what any of us want.  If you go wide-band, it makes sense to buy your
>> own.  Or at least this is what I've been able to surmise so far from my
>> brother's experience.
>>
>> Matt P.
>
>
> If this is the same Ubee modem I have, it is possible to put it in bridge
> mode, but the link isn't in the interface -- you have to go to
> /TlModeChange.asp. I've got mine bridged, and the performance actually
> seems much better.
>
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