[TriLUG] Own your own cable modem?

[Stephen Bryant]

> My brother got wide band for about a day and a half.... They put their own
> wifi docis 3 router in, and they won't let it bridge to your firewall.  So
> if you have a firewall of your own you want to run, it's behind their nat'd
> wireless router.  So you would end up with double nat behind your firewall.
>  Not what any of us want.  If you go wide-band, it makes sense to buy your
> own.  Or at least this is what I've been able to surmise so far from my
> brother's experience.
>
> Matt P.


If this is the same Ubee modem I have, it is possible to put it in bridge
mode, but the link isn't in the interface -- you have to go to
/TlModeChange.asp. I've got mine bridged, and the performance actually
seems much better.

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Stephen Bryant