Bill Broadley wrote: > Aaron Brayton wrote: >> Hello again everyone! >> >> I'm looking to outfit my parents with high sped internet. They still >> use dial-up. >> >> I've found an offer through comcast for $29.99 for six months, $100 >> rebate and a free Motorola SURFboard SBG900. > > I've been tempted by deals like that, but when I call I ask what the price I > after pay for month 7 and they waffle and say it's impossible to tell. How > long are you contracted to stay with comcast?
I have been with Comcast for about 6 years. Internet, basic tv, and phone service about $100 per month. No phone was about $60 per month. I think I had a surfboard before I got their phone service, and it worked fine. Re: comcast phone service: voicemail feature is a bit of a pain... cannot interrupt the message to delete immediately, must wait to the end. Otherwise works fine. >> (If someone knows of a better offer, please let me know.) >> >> Does anyone have feedback for the SBG900? Can you connect a USB printer >> to the USB port on the modem to 'network' the printer? > > I'd google for that, I found a wealth of info on what you could use USB ports > for. I was researching 802.11n linux access points and the support from > various community distributions. The USB port is a peripheral-type... you cannot connect it to a printer. In any event, that is not at all the intent of that USB port... rather it is intended to be a cheap ethernet port, which I very much recommend against using it for since ethernet is a much better networking media than USB. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech