I'm on comcast and have used my own cable modem and router for years. When my modem died I took theirs, since they told me that they were going to charge me a monthly fee regardless of whether I rented their modem or had my own.
I can see why providers may ship their own devices with some presets, so as to have less configurations to deal with when people call in, but 5 ip's does seem really low. I mean, I know people who have Tivo VoIP Wii PS3 roku box airport express And that's not including their pc's or phones. rgt On 11/1/2010 7:48 AM, Joe McDonagh wrote: > On 10/19/2010 10:42 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> >> Because of recent conversations on this list about comcast versus >> world, I feel compelled to tell this story: >> >> I have a friend, who is very computer proficient. He called me up to >> talk about an IP address conflict on his home network. He told me he >> has comcast, and he has access to login to the comcast router, and the >> router is configured to give out IP addresses via DHCP, and the >> dynamic range is from 192.168.0.10 to 192.168.0.14. So they only give >> you 5 IP addresses, and if you try to connect a 6th computer, you >> can't. You get an IP conflict, and somebody gets booted off the network. >> >> I told him, "Well, why don't you just change the dynamic range?" He >> said you can't. He said he spent hours on the phone with comcast, and >> they told him "Call netgear." I couldn't believe him. So he >> initiated a screen sharing session, and showed me. We considered >> flashing a nonstandard firmware onto the comcast router ... which >> seemed risky ... I suggested maybe looking up the factory reset for >> the router. He said he already did that, and it just resets to >> Comcast factory condition. >> >> He's got a home server, a printer, two laptops, and two desktops. He >> can't use them all at the same time. Nevermind, god forbid, he should >> have anything like vonage, or a PDA, or a couple of teenage children >> with computers. >> >> We concluded there's only one possible solution: He needs to buy >> another router, and hook the outside of his new router to the inside >> of the comcast router. >> >> We concluded there is one, and precisely one, possible reason for >> comcast to be stingy with the 192.168.x.x IP addresses. They're just >> being d**ks and there is no other possible explanation. >> >> Oh - Get this - While all his other computers and stuff were on, and >> his laptop had an IP conflict which was preventing him from starting >> his screen sharing session ... I suggested that he just assign >> himself a static IP address, 192.168.0.15. He did this. He could >> ping the gateway. But he could not ping outside the gateway. So in >> addition to the dynamic range being pathetically small, they also >> apply a filter to prevent you from using any static IP outside of the >> dynamic range. D**ks. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> bblisa mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa > I've been using Comcast for years north of Boston and it simply doesn't > work like this where I live. You don't even have to use one bit of > Comcast equipment on your line; I've had my own motorola surfboard for > years, and put whatever I want behind it (dd-wrt, soekris, linksys). > > Frankly I don't even understand how they would accomplish this since > they don't control the internal LAN. They might control the firmware on > their router, but just replace it since it's probably garbage anyways. > > > > _______________________________________________ > bblisa mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
