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<blockquote data-quote="NightShade" data-source="post: 3011354" data-attributes="member: 29706"><p>Have to agree that renting their gateway's is bad juju. You end up having it for three or four years and pay twice what it is worth in rental fees.</p><p></p><p>I have a docsis 3.0 8X4 arris cm800 along with a SuperMicro board with 8GB of ram and a couple L5630's and OpnSense as a router and a Nighthawk X6 R8000 put into AP mode for WiFi. In about 8 to 12 months I will be swapping the modem out to something like a sb8200 docsis 3.1 and with my router I can actually bond the two ethernet ports together. If I do that and toss a 10G ethernet card into my Router, FreeNAS and Desktop I will get to have some other stuff to go along with it. Intel x520's or some chelsio s310's or 320's but when I start looking at parts all I see is hundred dollar bills floating away.</p><p></p><p>Another reason why I do not like the combined router/modem's especially the rentals is it's nearly impossible to change over to another firmware of your choice. Need an extra feature on a standalone router and you can probably grab dd-wrt, opn-wrt, or tomato, with a combo you just plain get what you have. To add to that the cable company probably has a backdoor into your home side of the network and I also have a feeling that they have their own hidden AP available to their techs. Some companies have been pushing them out with a feature that allows them to use your home as a free wifi ap for customers who have signed in, I know Comcast is doing this and I believe Cox has started the same practice since I have began seeing their ap's pop up around Guthrie and OKC in the last couple months. They generally give extra speed to your home but they never really elaborate if the person connected has your external IP or if they route the traffic to another IP, which can mean the person downloading child porn could be pointing the feds directly to your home.</p><p></p><p>[USER=5412]@dennishoddy[/USER] Even with trees you may be able to get internet access if the hill they are on is in line of sight with their tower and your place is close enough to the hill to run power and ethernet over and I did one install where I bounced from a barn that had power at the top of the hill over to a couple houses about 200 yards away. And if you can set up a tower on the hill and neighbours are interested you may even be able to get free or discounted service if they use it as a distribution point, shoot they may even pay you for it on top of free service.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NightShade, post: 3011354, member: 29706"] Have to agree that renting their gateway's is bad juju. You end up having it for three or four years and pay twice what it is worth in rental fees. I have a docsis 3.0 8X4 arris cm800 along with a SuperMicro board with 8GB of ram and a couple L5630's and OpnSense as a router and a Nighthawk X6 R8000 put into AP mode for WiFi. In about 8 to 12 months I will be swapping the modem out to something like a sb8200 docsis 3.1 and with my router I can actually bond the two ethernet ports together. If I do that and toss a 10G ethernet card into my Router, FreeNAS and Desktop I will get to have some other stuff to go along with it. Intel x520's or some chelsio s310's or 320's but when I start looking at parts all I see is hundred dollar bills floating away. Another reason why I do not like the combined router/modem's especially the rentals is it's nearly impossible to change over to another firmware of your choice. Need an extra feature on a standalone router and you can probably grab dd-wrt, opn-wrt, or tomato, with a combo you just plain get what you have. To add to that the cable company probably has a backdoor into your home side of the network and I also have a feeling that they have their own hidden AP available to their techs. Some companies have been pushing them out with a feature that allows them to use your home as a free wifi ap for customers who have signed in, I know Comcast is doing this and I believe Cox has started the same practice since I have began seeing their ap's pop up around Guthrie and OKC in the last couple months. They generally give extra speed to your home but they never really elaborate if the person connected has your external IP or if they route the traffic to another IP, which can mean the person downloading child porn could be pointing the feds directly to your home. [USER=5412]@dennishoddy[/USER] Even with trees you may be able to get internet access if the hill they are on is in line of sight with their tower and your place is close enough to the hill to run power and ethernet over and I did one install where I bounced from a barn that had power at the top of the hill over to a couple houses about 200 yards away. And if you can set up a tower on the hill and neighbours are interested you may even be able to get free or discounted service if they use it as a distribution point, shoot they may even pay you for it on top of free service. [/QUOTE]
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