[BBLISA] comcast ... again

[Steve Meuse]

Edward Ned Harvey expunged (bblisa4 at nedharvey.com):

> > 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,

I work for comcast, but not for the local market, so I'm not sure what the packages are, etc.

Last I remember you have to specifically *ask* for a home router, the default is to give the customer a cable modem. At a minimum, you can simply request a cable modem. 



-Steve