Depending on their compatible modem list, buy yourself a plain modem such as the Motorola sb6121 or sb6141 to save on the lease fee. After 6 months or so, it should pay for itself. Ooma is an awesome option too. As nothing is infallible, make sure you have decent cell phone. After that, short of an alien invasion or zombie apocalypse, you will be connected.
"James E. LaBarre" <j.e.laba...@gmail.com> wrote: >On 11/07/2015 10:18 AM, Ed Gorman wrote: >> 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. > >We have phone and internet both from Crudcast. Only recently dropped TV >from the bundle (and they managed to foul up the entire connection when >they disabled the TV portion too). So we'd still have to have a modem >with both. Of course, I'll eventually see if I can cut our costs at all >with some other option (POTS or perhaps some Ooma-type solution) and >reduce that to internet-only. > >As it is right now, their modem is set to bridged-mode, and I have a >Linksys with DD-WRT for the router. >_______________________________________________ >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 _______________________________________________ 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
