[TriLUG] Avoiding the TWC modem rental fee

[Kurktchiev, Boris]

I have been running the SB6141 since I moved to NC from TX about 7ish months ago. I have not paid the rental fee at all. The modem is fantastic and actually gives me the 50/5 I am supposed to get consistently. Plus its a DOCSIS 3.0 modem so whenever TWC/Charter/Cox decides to upgrade their infrastructure into the 21st century the modem is ready to go and deliver 300/100 :)

Combining it with a Toastman's Tomato flash on my wrt 610n I can get a consistent 8mb/s download. The upload is crap, but thats due to TWC's shenanigans, I have yet to be able to achieve more than 1mb/s spurts once in a while.

-B

On Aug 8, 2013, at 10:48 AM, Bill Farrow <bill at arrowsreach.com>
 wrote:

> Hey,
> We have been discussing the TWC modem rental fee on IRC today.
> Apparently this new fee has been such a boon to their bottom line that
> they are increasing it to $6 per month.
> 
> We have been looking into the TWC "recommended modems" and have come
> up with the Motorola SB6141 which is currently priced at ~$85 online.
> At $6/mo this would take 14 months to pay for itself.
> 
> Has anyone else bought their own modem with TWC service in the
> Triangle area ?  Any problems or gotcha's ?
> 
> 
> Bill
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