Take my word for it and get the Arris/Motorola Surboard 6183 it's around a 100 
bucks on Amazon

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> On Mar 29, 2016, at 7:00 PM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> In looking at the back of the NetGear modem/Router there is no COAX 
> connection, which is how TimeWarner brings connectivity TO the modem…outbound 
> is through ethernet or wireless but at first blush this unit won’t work.
> 
> John
> 
> 
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>> 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
>> 
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