Tired of paying $5 a month to rent something I can buy on ebay for $30-$40. Anything specific I should look for? Time Warner service in Williamsville.
i would say make sure it can handle the amount of bandwidth, I think my service was recently upgraded to 10mbs/down and my modem cant handle it 
My surfboard modem works just fine…
I have also used the Linksys cable modems before and they also work fine…
Don’t have any useful advice outside of that…never had issues with either of them…
I have an SB3100 sitting at home, it was on adelphia. I don’t know why I have it. You can have it if you want. I’ll be in buffalo in a couple weeks.
Tough to argue with free.
If not I’d recommend something DOCSIS 3.0 since if you’re spending the money I could see time warner giving you lower speed down the line because you’re DOCSIS 2.0 or something like that…
:tup:
Sounds good. Might not need it because I’m still throwing around the idea of going FIOS. Gotta PM Nikuk and see if he’s still happy with his Fios.
Just not happy with $32 in monthly equipment costs to replicate what I have now with Dish (home media DVR + 2 regular set top boxes).
what’s the cliffs on using your own modem with TW?
can you just pick up any cable modem and call TW and be done, or is there more to this?
From what I’ve seen, yeah. You call them with the MAC address, they enter it, you plug the new one and and it syncs. Return their modem and bye bye rental fee.
You can pick up a cable modem and call timerwarner…
OR
Most new cable modems allow you to spoof another MAC address and you just put in the MAC address of your old cable modem
I wouldn’t spoof if your old one was rented…I could see them giving it out to someone else and that causing all hell to break loose
Nah
It doesn’t work like that…The MAC is authorized for a node…
If you took your modem to another location it wouldnt work…I moved apartments in the same complex and needed to get my MAC readded…
oh that’s cool. I had a bunch of problems switching a digital cable box with them that had previously been someone else’s. God i don’t miss TW.
TW blows
SB3100 isn’t docsis 2.0. It’ll work but won’t handle the speeds.
Any standard cable modem that is docsis 2 will work just fine. I’ve heard from a few of my engineer friends back in TWland that they have been testing 50+mbps download caps and are awaiting standardization of 3.0…
Either way, buy one used on eBay and it pays for itself the first 5 months.
Will the 3100 handle the 10/2 connection I have now?
Negative, when they initially rolled out the 10/2 there was 1500+ subscribers with 3100’s, and so they setup a team to call each person and offer a new modem, most declined and after a week called in and reported slow speeds…:roflpicard:
Hrm, didn’t realize they were cheap. Do the technologies update frequently? I’ve been renting one for years, might as well bite the bullet. If its only $30, its not like it’ll wear out in 6 months.
You give out some of the worst advice/crap inside info relating to ANYTHING time warner…
Yea?
So how is that wrong? That is what I did with my replacement modem and it worked fine…
It’s extremely useful to post and say I am wrong with out any supporting details…
BUMP
New (old?) $4 fee is making me want to buy one.
Time warner suggests the following:
http://www.timewarnercable.com/en/residential-home/support/topics/internet/buy-your-modem.html
Good? bad? what do you use?