Just a FYI, the cable modem must be from Optimum, they need to set it up remotely. Thus my point was if your modem is 5 years old or is a "Scientific Atlanta" time to swap it out.
Now the Router is your call, Optimum will give you a free one, but the cost of free is that second channel that allows Optimum customers to use your ( I mean there ) router. Other customers using your router does not count against your connection. Some people mind ( I do ) so simple solution is don't get there free router. So after all that, what is higher speed internet good for? Legally really only allowing more member of your household to stream services you pay for. The main reason I did the extra $5 is that with two teens and a video junkie wife, it really does make sense. Also DDNS with port 35 & 80 open is a welcome addition. I do believe that 50,75,101 are all "business class" services and are required to be on the DOCSIS 3 circuit. I have to look in to what the SLA is (Service Level Agreement) Joe /** Joseph T Apuzzo ** Developer, Admin: Cloud & Storage ** ** http://apuzzo.us ** PGP/GPG Key ID# 0xA16E26CF ** FingerPrint: 19A8 44EC F650 782B 6770 BF0E 2DAA 3D75 A16E 26CF **/ ---- On Tue, 10 Nov 2015 13:31:02 -0500 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
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