Going from U-verse to Cable. First-timer's questions

[N-OS X-tasy!]

cbelt3 wrote:
1) You just return the modem. GET A RECEIPT. Then be prepared to call and complain when they continue billing you for the modem.

2) When I switched out our modem with one I purchased I just activated it using their instructions.

http://www.timewarnercable.com/en/suppor...ation.html

FWIW, that's a pretty goshdarned good price.

1) I avoided this problem by going with my own modem from Day One with TWC. An additional benefit to this approach is the modem pays for itself that much sooner.

2) TWC has pretty detailed instructions on how to purchase and activate your own modem on their web site:
http://www.timewarnercable.com/en/suppor...modem.html
http://www.timewarnercable.com/en/suppor...ation.html

[Filliam H. Muffman]

Wailer wrote:
Thanks for the tips.

[quote=Filliam H. Muffman]
You don't put a modem in bridge mode.

Why do you say that?

For modems that support it, I've always put them in bridge mode. I use open source routers with good, fast DHCP. I also don't want the extra hop to the modem's router, any potential double NAT, or to use the crap gateways that most off-the-shelf modems use. It also seems a lot easier to swap out a modem in bridge mode than it would be to reconfigure a gateway.

I'd love to hear the disadvantages of putting your modem in bridge mode when you have a good, reliable router.
I guess my Cisco comes up in bridged mode. I have never messed with trying to get it to assign addresses to more than one device.

[colonel panic]

Save yourself the trouble and just buy a modem from the get-go. I have a Motorola SB6141 with the TWC 50/5 plan. Works great, no issues.