Wayne Dernoncourt wrote:
Art Clemons
Does any of that make sense? I understand that the local
cable office does have a WAP version as well as a non-WAP
version of the modem.
One other approach when the cable company or other
broadband ISP doesn't want to open up its firewall setup
is to have a DMZ IP address which is assigned to your
router. Set up the router to do its normal IP filtering,
NAT and SPI functions, and you're just as safe as if you
had the router connected to a "dumb" modem. This assumes
of course that you use WPA2 with AES and a relatively
long password/pre-shared-key.
Security isn't high on the list of concerns, cows out number
people at least 5 to 1, the town does have a stop light and
it works. I wasn't really concerned with being safe as much
as not "breaking" the Internet for our hosts. The mom there
is talking about getting a laptop/netbook eventually.
Most ISPs will detail how to setup a DMZ IP address or
range for folks like gamers. Just remember to use the
router and not your computer as the interface.
I haven't talked to the ISP, I might do that eventually.
My experience has been that you can buy a modem to use instead of the
often questionable ones from the cable company. Several cable workmen
have seemed happy to see that I wasn't using the junk from the cable
company.
If you do switch modems someone will likely be in for a long
conversation on the phone with the cable company. At Comcast at least,
they apparently make this change difficult somehow.
Different cable companies might do things differently but they should be
able to use their own quality modem and router. Someone will have to
call the company first.
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