You can't use a DSL Modem with TWC. Netgear makes a cable modem with built in wifi if you want a combo.
Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 29, 2016, at 6:54 PM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks Chris and Lee, so fantastic to have all this help at the end of a > keyboard. It’s so valuable and we in this group are quite fortunate to have > those so willing to give of their time to help others….no little matter. > > I did take the old modem back to TimeWarner so I wouldn’t be charged. I did > ask them if buying my own modem would save me a monthly fee…sure enough, it’s > now $8.00 a month rental and going to $10.00…Jonathan was right, they will > get their slice of hide somehow. > > I can use any modem that will support the higher speeds and while there the > employee looked up and found a Netgear Nighthawk AC1900 Wi-Fi Router with > VDSL/ADSL Modem. With speeds up to 1900 Mbps and lots of other technical > jargon it would work (according to this guy) and the speeds are almost 5 x > the max. that TimeWarner will be supporting. > > Since I have NEVER used anything but an Apple Router what are the thoughts on > this unit? It does say it requires the download of their Genie App to > control the unit so I gather it’s written for Apple products? > > > > Thanks a bunch. > > John > > > <PastedGraphic-2.png> > > >> On Mar 29, 2016, at 4:27 PM, Lee Larson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Mar 29, 2016, at 2:15 PM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> My 2009 MacBook Pro (with the removable battery) is needing a new drive, >>> it’s slower than watching corn grow. I want to get a new Macbook but will >>> wait until the new models come out later this year. My daughter is wanting >>> a laptop so I might be able to fix this one for her to use. >> >> That’s still a pretty capable machine, even seven years later. I still use >> one as my main machine for writing and email because it’s got a good >> display, nice keyboard and dual-core 2.4 GHz processor. The newer machines >> often seem faster, not because their hardware is so much better, but because >> of the SSD drives. >> >> >>> Any suggestions as to what is a good brand, where to purchase? >> >> Pretty much any 2.5” SATA drive should work. My solution, a little more than >> a year ago, was to compromise with a Seagate ST1000DX hybrid drive. This is >> a 1 TB spinning drive with a built-in 8 GB solid-state cache. It’s kind of >> like Apple’s Mechanical/SSD Fusion drive combo. The firmware on the drive >> watches which files you use most often and keeps them in the cache, so it’s >> pretty fast loading the programs you always use — after it learns what they >> are. You can pick up such a drive for $75 or so. >> >> A year ago, SSDs were still pretty expensive, but they’ve come down in price >> so much over the last year, that I’d probably go with one of those now. >> Before buying one, do a little research to get a drive supported by the TRIM >> in El Capitan and learn how to turn it on. Otherwise, the performance of >> your SSD will degrade over time. >> >> Don’t expect spectacular SSD performance off that machine because it’s got a >> slower SATA bus than the newer machines. You may be able to improve it a lot >> by making sure you’ve installed Apple’s firmware patches which raised the >> link speed from 1.5 Gb/s to 3.0 Gb/s. It made a real difference on my >> machine. The upgrades weren’t available on all the 2009 machines. >> >> L^2 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacGroup mailing list >> Posting address: [email protected] >> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> >> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/> > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > Posting address: [email protected] > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> > Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
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