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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