The WiFi modems they give out were intended for non tech users. The manufacturers "water" down the features. Also rumor has said Cablevision enables a second SSID for the modem to be a WiFi hotspot, OPTWIFI. I see this in my rural neighborhood.
The best thing to do is buy a router and swap the modem for a plain DOCSIS 3 compatible modem. If they do not/cannot do this, buy your own. I did a comparison of the Netgear Nighthawk router and the Netgear CS7000 WiFi modem which has the Nighthawk built in and the router has better WiFi. "James E. LaBarre" <j.e.laba...@gmail.com> wrote: >On 11/06/2015 08:04 PM, japuzzo wrote: >> Simple resolution was to swap out the modem for a new ARRIS TM822 which >> is a DOCSIS 3.0 >> Cool side note, if you get this modem you can go >> to https://192.168.100.1 to access it's status pages which gives some >> modem info. > >I hope it's better than the P.o.S. Arris TG862G that Cr*pcast likes to >provide. The 862 is supposed to be a WiFi/Router as well as a telephony >modem, but it was such a PITA to configure (and couldn't handle >redirecting external ports to a different port on the internal address >you're redirecting to. Not that I need to do that anymore, but still. >And if you were assigning "Static Leases" (in DD-WRT parlance) for your >home systems, the unit would effectively have to reset itself for each >and every entry. I had that sucker switched over to "bridged" mode >almost immediately. > >_______________________________________________ >Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org >https://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > >Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College * > Dec 2 - File Systems From Simple To Distributed High Preformance > Jan 6 - Why We Can'T Have The Internet Of Nice Things: A Home Automation > Primer > Mar 2 - Consuming The Cloud: Shoot Out _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org https://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College * Dec 2 - File Systems From Simple To Distributed High Performance Jan 6 - Why We Can'T Have The Internet Of Nice Things: A Home Automation Primer Mar 2 - Consuming The Cloud: Shoot Out
