One of my kids lives in southern NJ and has Comcast.
They set it up for her at no cost, including a free SB cable modem.
Throughput up and down is fantastic - at least as good as Optonline.com (i.e., Cablevision).
Anyway, after her service was up and running I just added a D-Link router for her without any problems.
I even asked the installer when he was at her house if there was any problem adding a router.
He said no, but suggested that Comcast's on-line support (monkeys) might ask for it to be removed if they were troubleshooting a problem.
The way he told it, it wasn't that Comcast had a problem with the router as much as it was that their support monkeys would use it as an excuse for any problems that were reported to them.
By the way, how would Comcast know which specific router you used?
Regards,
Mike
At 07:15 PM 1/8/2006 -0500, AMDSpeed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've had nothing but great service with Verizon DSL at my place in Queens
NYC. My girlfriend just switched over from Comcast in Pittsburgh to Verizon
DSL. Sorry, but Comcast blows chunks. Wouldn't allow any aftermarket router
to be used, shoddy service. I've been using Verizon for over 3 years now in
Queens and have had to reset the modem maybe once a year. I just switched to
the $15/month plan and the speed is quite acceptable. Only while downloading
large files such as MS updates or large files do you notice it, but it seems
the rest of the internet is slow enough that my connection is usually not
the bottleneck. I'm currently using Optimum Online and its great except the
$$$ so I'll be switching her also.
You'll need to use their software to setup the modem and initialize your
account, but afterwards, you don't need any extra software to access the
internet.
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