Bob Bell wrote:
> First, does anyone have an opinion or renting the cable modem or
> buying one in general? Pros, cons, and recommendations?
My father just sprung for this. He lives off of 101A near the airport.
He bought his modem rather than renting it. Seems like a better deal.
I still rent mine, but that may change (M1 said that if *I* break the
modem they'll charge me $600 for it...)
We haven't done any real performance comparisons just yet (and, that's
kinda hard because you just can't swap one modem for the other on the
same coax.) However both seem to perform okay.
Circuit City in Nashua had modems at one point but they had no "activation
kits". When asked what's in the "activation kit" the reply was "stuff you
need to make the modem work". When asked "what kind off stuff" the exact
same answer came back.
Basically it's a crock: it's a "off-line" help file/wizard that attempts
to guide you through some basic troubleshooting in case the connection
appears to go dead. Not real useful and definitely not essential to
making the modem actually work.
The Toshiba modem comes with its own CD. But all that appears to be is
another "wizard" that sniffs around on your (windows-based) computer to
check that you have the right/enough hardware to install and run the
modem. You check on a radio button corresponding to your cable provider
(I wonder if Palm Beach residents have trouble with this...) and it
takes inventory and gives you a yea/nay.
All that's required really is the MAC address of the modem and
your network card. They also want to note the serial number of the
modem; that *might* play into its "provisioning" but I kinda
doubt it.
-- Farrell
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