>>>>> "John" == John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> writes:
John> The bill was actually $86.76 because I signed up for their $9.99 a John> month modem rental, intending to return it and buy my own as soon John> as I can figure out what to buy. The paperwork says their modem is John> a Model Number: C2100T. There is another device in addition to the John> modem, but I don't know what it is. Someone here posted that they John> had bought a modem for CenturyLink gigabit for $50 somewhere, but John> I can't find the message now. Advice would be appreciated. You need a router that can do a vlan and pppoe. The CenturyLink device is just a wireless router with those features, no fancy demodulator like a cable modem. I have set up a few gateway routers on CL fiber, and I could help. One person got a D-Link DIR860L-B1 (about $30 on amazon) and put LEDE (OpenWrt) on it, with a configuration I helped the with. Works pretty well. Despite the speed claims and speed tests, downloads from actual services tend to be much lower. I rarely see more that 30 Mbps, although a few times I saw 200-300 Mbps. I'm not sure why, if it is just bad peering, the other end-point not feeding fast enough, or some kind of active throttling. -- Russell Senior, President russ...@personaltelco.net _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug