If you plan on switching your landline to comcast they require a EMTA type cable modem for which you must rent and cannot buy on your own. The rental is $7/month I believe. If you drop the landline and just do cable modem, you can get the Motorola 3008 series ( I think) from microcenter for about $70. On Jun 18, 2014 11:25 PM, "Jeff Jensen" <jjensen at apache.org> wrote: > I'm probably switching from CenturyLink to Comcast [yes, both are loser > monopoly companies] since CL top speed to my house is 12/.8 and planning on > CC 50/10. > > I prefer to buy a good modem/router (and wonder about the "lucky dip" > they'll send). Plus, at $8 rental, a purchase pays for itself in 8-16 > months (depends on price of course). > > I plan to switch the landline as well. Does the cable modem then need a > phone connector/jack as well or what is the connection? (I've only ever > used DSL) > > I've been looking at [0] and [1]. I'm a Netgear fan so the N450 and N600 > stand out to me. But I did not see any of them mention phone capability. > > I don't need wireless on it (have another unit that provides that) but > fine if it does. My current DSL router has it but I turned it off. > > So I'm wondering if anyone has cable modem purchase recommendations for > me? Or is the recommendation to rent theirs? > > > [0] http://mydeviceinfo.comcast.net/ > [1] http://mynewmodem.comcast.net/ > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140619/386c601c/attachment.html>