[ale] Xfinity Modem -- lease or buy recoomendations

[Horkan Smith]

(Hand goes up in the air...)

Hey Jeremy, I'd *love* to know how to do Comcast Business class static IPs on my own modem!  How'd you do it?  8-)

thanks!
   horkan

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 05:57:40PM -0400, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote:
> Ask me how you get around them not allowing you a static IP on business
> class if you own your own modem :)
> 
> I've been slowly moving all my services that ran on various VPS/cloud
> hosts back into my house now that I'm on business class... You can
> engineer the hell out of a solution and make it work if you want to.
> 
> On 9/29/2015 1:04 PM, H P Ladds wrote:
> > Jeremy
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Solomon Peachy <pizza at shaftnet.org
> > <mailto:pizza at shaftnet.org>> wrote:
> >
> >     On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 01:14:07PM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> >     > I had a DOCSIS modem long ago, before xfinity.. I helped my
> >     daughter buy
> >     > one a few years back, we went to Best buy & bought the cheapest
> >     one they
> >     > had. She never had a problem..
> >     >
> >     >
> >     http://customer.xfinity.com/help-and-support/internet/list-of-approved-cable-modems/
> >
> >     http://mydeviceinfo.comcast.net/
> >
> >     You can plug your service speed in, and it'll show you the minimal
> >     equipment needed.
> >
> >     I'd get the Motorola/Arris SB6141, they're reasonably priced ($90) and
> >     will support all but the highest speed tiers (ie >=250Mbps).  The 6121
> >     ($70 new) is cheaper but maxes out at 100Mbps.
> >
> >     One caveat, if you're a business class customer and want static
> >     IPs, you
> >     *must* rent a modem from Comcast.  (Go ahead, ask me how I learned
> >     this.
> >     sigh..)
> >
> >      - Solomon
> >     --
> >     Solomon Peachy                         pizza at shaftnet dot org
> >     Delray Beach, FL                          ^^ (email/xmpp) ^^
> >     Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
> >
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