[TriLUG] Own your own cable modem?

[Matt Pusateri]

He had it when it first came out.  The installer wouldn't do it, nor would Tier 3 tech support.  Maybe he just got bad people, imagine that a bad experience from TWC.....

On Nov 17, 2011, at 9:12 PM, Reginald Reed wrote:

> 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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