On Jan 17, 2013, at 16:14 , Lee Larson <[email protected]> wrote:

> This is a long message telling of my Internet adventures over the last few 
> days.
> 
> It all started early last week when one of the droids from Insight called to 
> say they planned to install a new cable modem in our house to support the 
> changes being made to our telephone service. We buy the Insight triple 
> play—cable, broadband and telephone—and the new modem would support the 
> latter two, giving our phone service more features.
> 
> The conversation went something like this:
> 
> 
> Me: I have a pretty good modem already that works well with my home network.
> 
> Droid: The modem we plan to install is also a fine modem.
 ^^^^^

This term has always made me wonder why Android picked its own name.

[snip...]

> The modem is an impressive looking box with lots of lights and a four-port 
> Ethernet switch on the back. It's an Arris TM826G set up especially for 
> Time/Warner. It has a router, a firewall and WiFi built in.

Uh oh. A Time/Warner modem?!? Scary to think it is needed for Insight (esp. 
when Time/Warner just started charging their customers to rent their custom 
modems.

> Is this the opening salvo of what can be expected from the Time/Warner 
> takeover of Insight?

Darn. I had forgotten about this. My mom is not happy with Time/Warner and my 
step-daughter wasn't either, at first.

I suppose that AT&T isn't much better/worse?

Bill

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