[BBLISA] comcast ... again

[Edward Ned Harvey]

> From: Carl Alexander [mailto:xela at MIT.EDU]
> 
> Um.  I can only assume from this that your friend is renting his
> router from Comcast, rather than using one of his own?  Because
> the normal thing for computer-proficient people to do is to
> buy a WRT54GL and run their NAT off that.  Which will happily

So, you buy your own cable modem?  Last I checked, you couldn't connect a
Coax to a WRT54G.  Other than that ... The coax comes into the house,
connects to this comcast supplied router, which has a wifi antenna and some
wired data ports...  Serves up 5 IP addresses.  It's got a public IP on the
coax side, and that's it.

Maybe you have to specify, "I want a dumb cable modem so I can run my own
router" so they don't give you a crippled router cable modem?