[TriLUG] RE: broadband in the Triangle area

Lance A. Brown lance at bearcircle.net
Sun Aug 24 18:30:23 EDT 2003


So, if I were to buy my own modem, what brands/models are recommended?

--[Lance]

On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 12:05, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 21:36, Ben Pitzer wrote:
> 
> > One last thing:  If you decide to go with cable, buy your own cable modem.
> > The $5 or so you save every month will pay for that modem in about 1.5 years
> > or better.  
> 
> Heya Ben,
> Thanks for all the info.
> 
> If you do buy your own cable modem, can you actually get the ISPs to
> refund the "rental" charge?  If so, how do you go about doing that? 
> It's certainly not itemized on my bill (which comes from Time-Warner
> Cable, even though I have Earthlink service.)
> 
> --Jeremy
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