Cable Modem Help

What don't you like about Direct TV? I've been using them for the last few months, and so far they've been fine.

We have Suddenlink in Truckee, cable TV and internet, but there's an ongoing problem:

Squirrels eat the cables. That doesn't sound very appetizing to me.

Well, not doing something doesn't usually count as an accomplishment. ;)

Movies and videos are intended to grab hold of one's full attention, which is basically what I don't like about them.

Some minority are honest about what they present, but IME none repays in in terest what it demands in attention, so I get bored very rapidly. I can ha ve fun with a pad of paper, more still with a book, and way more than that with good company. Family dinners round here are a riot. :)

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Be glad it isn't land sharks.

Back in the '80s there was a bit of a plague of sharks severing undersea cables. A grad school colleague had a poster on his door purporting to show that this was a continuation of 1/f noise down to the 10**-8 Hz level. ;)

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

You've missed a lot of good movies but also a lot of dreck. We saw "Sully" in the theater last week - awesome movie. We go to the movies about once or twice a month, if there is something to see. We've only seen a couple of movies this year, though. Pretty lame year.

Netflix has more than movies but you probably don't watch TV at all.

So is sex. ;-)

My mind never wanders in the good ones. The not so good, well, I can always watch my watch.

Dropout every time a cloud rolls by (not quite that bad, but...). They promised that they could fix that but never did. Surly representatives. Charging for the repair of *their* equipment. Cost. There wasn't much to recommend them, other than they were the only game in town (had similar issues with DISH at the previous house).

In the NYC area I can't seem to get any option for data without a phone line and its taxes.

Two routers mean two completely separate LAN(Local Area Network). Note that each router will have its own WAN (Wide Area Network) side and a LAN side, with the router passing data back and forth netween LAN -> WAN and WAN -> LAN. The two routers may share the same WAN. Any device in the LAN of one router, cannot directly exchange data with a device in the LAN of a separate router, even if located in the same physical location. Such data exchanges have got to take place via the WAN. Incoming packets at a router will be filtered via the router's firewall, NAT(Network Address Translation) tables and Port Forwarding rules.

All ADSL modems these days have a router backend. So a viable and reliable setup would include an ADSL modem/router followed ny an Ethernet switch, and zero WiFi connections. This is because ALL wireless channels are "best-effort" and with increasing wireless transmission frequencies, packet collisions WILL occur - can't beat Mother Nature.

A network should first and foremost be reliable -- hope rhis helps.

You are right the sales man should be on youre side after all he or she is trying to make a sale. I find the worst sales staff is at best buy in my area any ways and Wal-Mart. its funny when you show them a print out off the company's own web site saying the features ect and they say oh well that must be the online model:) now i just go find what i want and buy it. but to be fair there are a lot of knowledgeable sales staff in both stores to AT TIMES:)

Verizon is my area is wireless only now for about 10 years. sold it's land line business to Fair Point Commutations. I still use a POTS land line as time warner cable aka spectrum's digital phone service works 90% of the time the rest is system maintenance with no warnings. or just goes down when it feels like it. I told them when digital phone is 100% reliable like fair point's service is then we can talk. I am looking at a deal from Verizon wireless for its version of digital phone for $19.95 a month unlimited use and FREE long distance. its a phone modem like time warner cables BUT unlike timewarner cables it has a 5 Day BATTERY BACK UP built in. twc does not seem to care its losing its subscribers to Verizon big time in Maine any way:) the same day. A couple of times

I tell them NO THANKS my land lord DOES NOT ALLOW SATELLITE TV in his buildings:) shuts them up fast. I talked to one i feel bad for them they are paied well but are told to try to sell sell to every one that walks past them. I could not do it 8 hours a day 5 days a week not for a service i don't believe in.

Works fine in some areas ken. in my area i hear complaints about them all the time. one of my friends just dumped them for time warner cable and he gets the same channels and his digital phone and internet with more speed then direct TV for over 100 bucks less.

What don't you like about Direct TV? I've been using them for the last few months, and so far they've been fine.

The second part of youre post Phil was not mine i was replying to the original poster my post ends after the talk about channel bonding. when you see the same hear that is the other posters reply to mine:) I have a nice netgear wireless router but at present i don't use it. when i get around to it ill hook it up and use for my lap top:)

Andy pretended :

That experience was at "Staples" which I already knew were less than completely savvy. They were pretty helpful on the sales end though. I was a bit surprised when the saleman told us on the 'down low' that we could get the warranty and if the computer broke, even trivially, we could run it over with our car and they would completely replace it with no questions asked.

Could I get that in writing? LOL

I used to have DTV. One of the main reasons I quit was the very poor customer service. One of the last times I contacted them was to say the problem was fixed (finally, and probably not because I contacted them). They responded to that by messing up my online account AGAIN. Once when I called about the new HD DVR, the "customer service representative" asked my how many mushrooms are on my dish.

As to cable modems, I agree that the modem should be separate from a router/Wifi device. One reason is that the modem really belongs to the ISP (even if you bought it) and the router is a part of YOUR network and you should have control over it. I wouldn't expect to be able to put DD-WRT on one of those combinations.

Ironic, given all of the times that you bragged about TWC service in Maine being the best in the country, rock solid, zero outages, etc.

You could probably do a whole lot better by picking up a cheap ATA, such as an Obi-100 or Ooma, then using Google Voice which is free and includes unlimited free domestic long distance.

Hanbury Brown had a similar problem with birds in the Outback. His solution was to wrap the cables in roofing felt. YMMV.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

As I said, I've had only a little experience with them, but I've never had a problem anything like that. The only dropout we've had was for about ten minutes during a severe thunderstorm.

I've had no experience with either (except for the man who installed it, and he was very pleasant and helpful).

Our only alternative is Comcast, and they are substantially less expensive than Comcast.