Interesting, for me they sent their standard little black cable modem which terminates with a single ethernet port, and a wireles router with a WAN port rather than an all in one jobbie.
--James. (This email was sent from a mobile device, this is not secure) On 10 Nov 2010 17:21, "Simon Dick" <sim...@irrelevant.org> wrote: > On 25 October 2010 21:55, James Bensley <jwbens...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 25 October 2010 16:08, Glenn Kelley <gl...@typo3usa.com> wrote: >>> Doubtful - for the direct connection. >>> He could ask them to place the cable modem however into bridge mode >> >> I don't believe that can be done (although most VM modems are >> accessible via http://192.168.100.1 you could check there). >> >> Upon initial install I believe the modem they give you registers its >> MAC with their network so you account is locked to that. Assuming any >> time you have a fault you will ring them and they would (if needs be) >> supply you with another router so there is no reason for a MAC unknown >> to them should ever show up on your line. > > Having just had that installed myself, they shipped me a Netgear 11n > router with built in cable modem, if you hassle them enough they are > willing to send out just a modem that you can use with your own > router, they told me today they'd be sending me it, despite the 3-4 > previous people I'd talked to saying that they didn't do them anymore, > only their "Media HUB". For the new routers there seems to be no way > to put them into Modem mode, default IP 192.168.0.1 user: admin and > password: changeme > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com > For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com > > Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org >
