[ale] OT: Comcast modem

[Scott McBrien]

About two years ago I replaced my rental with a $75 Motorola Surfboard I bought from Amazon.  It's Docsis 3.0, but doesn't have integrated wifi or anything fancy, as I wanted to be able to use an access point of my own choosing.

Activating it with Comcast was surprisingly easy.  I called up, told them what I wanted to do, they routed me to someone who knew what they were doing.  He asked for the serial number, and because I already had it cabled, he sent some reset signals and we were done.  That was the last time I talked to them...about cable modems ;-)

-Scott

On Feb 11, 2013, at 9:35 AM, Edward Holcroft <eholcroft at mkainc.com> wrote:

> All,
> 
> I have been paying Comcast to rent a cable modem for the last 6 years and have realized I could've owned several for the money I've handed to them over the years.
> 
> Has anybody got some advice? What's the best way to go about this? Is it essential to have a "Comcast approved" device or will any cable modem work? 
> 
> Are there any changes in the pipeline that I need to be aware of for a purchase I make now e.g. IPv6? Is there a single "no-brainer" modem that I should buy? Or alternately, Is there any equipment that I should avoid?
> 
> cheers
> ed
> 
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