What's hard to believe? Just because your cable company blames the modem all the time doesn't mean they all do. As I said above, in my experience Comcast has never, ever blamed my modem. If you want to believe that I'm lying, that's your problem.
Oh, and I figure I've saved well over $100 over four years by owning instead of renting, so I'm way ahead.
-Gary
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This assumes that Comcast will replace your rental modem when it fails. In my case, they refused to do so (mine got zapped by a lightning strike). I had to buy a new one. They have not lowered my bill, either.
Alan
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My modem's ethernet port was zapped by lightning and Comcast quickly and courteously replaced it.
Mine was replaced quickly even tho it worked but a led didn't ligt up indicating it was connected! All I did was to ask if it was the modem or the cable connection.....
I cannot see any argument that beats owning a CM for free, or nearly free, after all rebates. Delay your hook-up if you need to, but opt for the free modem from one of the electronics chains. I purchased a Linksys CM this way a few years ago (Best Buy), I think I didn't get one of the rebates back, so it cost me $10. plus postage and sales tax on the full price. And I have saved nearly $100. in rentals so far. It has worked flawlessly since. This is a version 1 DOCSIS model. Is there much in a CM beyond a NIC to go wrong? Good luck.
dj
Yes.. the linksys cable modem V.1 and V.2 is already known to cause disconnects when you open up too many connections. (aka edonkey, emule, some multiplayer games.) We had a field day trying to get comcast to update the firmware to fix it.. they flat out refused to.
After that, many of us just threw our linksys modems away and bought/rented another one..
As i said earlier.. I would avoid the linksys modems.. We have had nothing but problems with them on dslreports.com....
If you get one, and it starts to freeze up when up open up a lot of connections... I warned you...
Yes.. the linksys cable modem V.1 and V.2 is already known to cause
Okay - I;m warned, I'm warned. However, the modem has since been upgraded to Version 3.
Has anyone had difficulty with Version 3 ? Office Depot has them in stock for a reasonable price. I just don't want to pay Comcast's rental fee.
George
I don't know what the latest versions are, but FWIW, the Motorola SB4100 I've had since day 1 on Optonline just keeps running fine. FWIW YMMV DFB
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