I have a rented from Comcast Arris TM722 ?G modem. It has no usb port, one phone port, one ethernet port, and of course a cable connection.
I've been googling trying to find a source to buy the same modem from so I can return the rental. I figure I'll be with Comcast for a year at least. If I disconnect, I might want to reconnect down the road. It is less hassle if I own the equipment and don't have to pay an extra $5/month. Much easier if Comcast can essentially throw a switch and I'm back up. If I can pick up a modem for $60 or less with the VOIP features, it doesn't make sense to rent, especially if I stick with Comcast for longer than a year. I need an external modem, I use a Netgear RP614v4 between the cable modem and my Linux based routers. I have opendns and dyndns.com set up, but it's hard to get the cable modem to come up with a different ip address and hence difficult to verify that opendns still works when the ip address changes. On dyndns.com I paid $15 for 1 year service, don't know if I needed to though. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
