When I had cable here where I live, they rented out their modem. As soon as I could I went and bought the latest and greatest modem, no WiFi just a bridging device from the coax to the ethernet port on my router.
I have used a gamut of routers some running OpenWRT, now at present I am using Mikrotik RB2011 talking to a 24 port Cisco which has 1G POE ports for all of the POE stuff. I also have Mikrotik AP's presently 2 of them. I can use my phones on WiFi calling and move around the house, the Mikrotiks hand off quite well, no lost audio or calls. Oh yes we have a great surplus computer recycler here in OKC. that is where I have found all of my GB PoE administered switches. I think if I had it to go again I would probably go the Ubiquiti route, I have done several lately and found that it is easier to teach to folks but maybe not for my stuff. Learning Mikrotik stuff has a curve but I got there and for the price it does well. I do not allow the network vampires to sell me WiFi router/modems, I do not allow them to sell/rent me routers either, all I want is a bridge into their network, otherwise you become like a dog with ticks... And on top of that they charge out the yin yang for their crappy internet service. I try to keep the network providers as far out of my home as possible. Presently with AT&T (the other provider in OKC) they only have bonded copper here but it is a steady 50mb regardless, when I was on Cox I was paying for their "megablast" or whatever it was, which was quite fast during the day but after evening set in it would go to buffering city. I never have that issue with AT&T. But the BW is not shared with them. I hope that some day they run fibre through here but I can live with the bonded copper, sooner or later they have got to do something because the old stuff is slowly dying. So yes, just get a good MODEM with nothing but bridging and no WiFi, use your own router, switches and AP, I for one do not like the AP built into the router either, keep them separate... On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 4:10 PM Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, May 01, 2021 at 06:56:02PM -0700, Russell Senior wrote: > > cable modem is on their side of the wall. As a result, I don't want > > wifi on the cable modem, because that can act as a sensor in your > > local environment. > > Ditto. I don't want spectrum competition between Comcast > and my own wifi, so I put an RF-blocking wire basket cage > over my Comcast cable modem. Comcast has not earned the > right to password-enclose public wifi bands across entire > regions. > > In the early middle ages, this was called "enclosure of > the commons", and transformed free farmers into serfs. > > My wifi is two access points: limited range private wifi, > and also public bandwidth-limited (to half my bandwidth) > Personal Telco wifi. Both currently offline while I > upgrade my firewall. > > Keith > > -- > Keith Lofstrom [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Chuck Hast -- KP4DJT -- I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. Ph 4:13 KJV Todo lo puedo en Cristo que me fortalece. Fil 4:13 RVR1960 _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
