[TriLUG] looking for bridge mode cable modem for Spectrum

[David Both via TriLUG]

Ok, well - I purchased it when I had both residential and business class 
TWC hoping to just use the residential (with TV and Phone) and drop 
business class which does not allow customer owned equipment. Before I 
could do that I had problems with the residential that took them ages to 
fix. We switched to DIsh and dropped the landline phone. I then decided 
to stick with business class because they were so much more responsive 
when I had problems. Eventually they merged and became Spectrum and the 
service went way downhill with crappy speeds way lower than I was paying 
for. After the merger Spectrum decided to drop the separate cables for 
business class and just use the one neighborhood cable so bandwidth died 
at peak usage times. I now have AT&T Gb fiber.

Anyway - I never got to use it.


On 10/26/20 9:16 AM, Mauricio Tavares via TriLUG wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 8:38 AM David Both via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>> I have an older but unused Motorola Surfboard. It is yours if you want
>> it. No charge, just pick it up if you are around Raleigh. It has no
>> phone jack.
>>
>        Which leads too... what is the reason NOT to run your own
> (supported) modem and router?
>
>> Let me know if you are interested.
>>
>> On 10/26/20 8:25 AM, Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG wrote:
>>> On Mon, 26 Oct 2020, Israel Pattison wrote:
>>>
>>>> I ran my modem in bridge mode on TWC/Spectrum for years (Motorola
>>>> Surfboard) without any issues. I switched to AT&T Fiber a few months
>>>> ago. In their modem config bridge mode is under the firewall settings
>>>> and labeled as “NAT Passthrough”. I talked to the technician who set
>>>> it up and we both agreed that it was the wrong name for the feature
>>>> and didn’t belong in firewall settings.
>>> I'm starting to get the idea that bridge mode is obsfucated, even if
>>> it's present. Where I've found it, has only been by someone pointing
>>> it out, like you've done, and it's always had a different name.
>>>
>>> Joe
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David P. Both, RHCE
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www.both.org - My personal web site
www.Linux-Databook.info - Home of the DataBook for Linux
DataBook is a Registered Trademark of David Both
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The value of any software lies in its usefulness
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