DOCSIS compliant. That's all you need worry about. You do NOT need a Windows box to set up. The right tech will know to log onto the secure server to register the modem. https://sas.r1.attbi.com Yes, it's still an "attbi" server but it's for registering the modem without using the stupid software. Truth is, owning your modem isn't much different from leasing it. You'll actually pay the same either way. If you get just the broadband you'll pay $52.95 a month. If you get the broadband and the most basic cable package you'll save $10 a month on each which means for just under $60 a month you can have basic cable and broadband. So if you watch TV you can basically have cable for about $5 more. Outages are more frequent on Comcast. I find myself rebooting my router to restore my connection almost weekly. Sometimes twice a week. Then again, it may just be my router. I've been too lazy to hook the other one up to find out. Even through the reboots and power cycles my IP has stayed the same for the past few months. I'm even running Apache on one box and a Slimp3 server on another and both are publicly available if you know the IP. Upside to owning your modem, it's yours, you can tweak it, but carefully or you can lose your service. Upside to leasing, it's theirs, if it's broken they have to replace it. Honestly, if someone is hooking it up for you and can't get it connected through Mozilla, don't trust them!! Half the guys doing installs these days are TV guys, not data guys. Most of them are freakin' clueless and amaze me at how dense they can be. Just hope you have someone that's been doing it for a while and may have even been around since the @home days. :)
That's all you need to know. Mr O. P.S. I own the Linksys Cable modem. Untweaked. --- Jackson Gibbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just anecdotal, but a co-worker who is a sysadmin for linux, > solaris, hp-ux, aix, and irix boxen finally gave up on cable > due to an apparent dhcp incompatibility with anything other > than billdows. > > He's happy with DSL... > > That's in Corvallis though, don't know if comcast is > consistent between towns yet. > > -J > > ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- > >I've also seen such deals, which would beat out the comcast > unit rental inside of a year's time, and so would prefer to spend my money on my own device, which I can happily destroy following its eventual breakdown = ) Is anyone familiar with any particular compatibility issues? ie, do I need to make sure the model supports some specific protocols or is a cable modem a cable modem, all the same, these days? thanks for all the informative responses, folks! > > > > Ben B > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
