Cutting Cable Bill

[Pablo 54]

Anyone here use their own cable modem and/or a cable card for a set or PC?

[PP Mguire]

Anyone here use their own cable modem and/or a cable card for a set or PC?

I have a Linksys/Cisco modem that is just waiting for the internet to be turned back on here.

[brokenwave]

who rent for cable modem should get an ass wups

zoom 2.0 here but i don't use it anymore. dsl guy for now

[CDsDontBurn]

How much do one of these go for usually? And how much does the cable company usually charge you for leasing / renting the modem?

[PP Mguire]

A good one like mine costs between 75 and 100. TW charges 7 dollars per month for the wireless hunk of junk.

[CDsDontBurn]

I'm definitely not liking my TWC modem. While it is convenient that it provides both modem / router capabilities, it's not very good IMO. The internet keeps cutting out - at least the WiFi - which is an issue for me since when that happens it causes the connection to my school's iLab to cut out and I have to reload the program. Sometimes, I forget to save what it is that I'm working on and I have to figure out where I was at before it cut out.

Also - though I"m not sure if this is due to interference or just a crappy WiFi antenna - the signal struggles to get into the bedroom which is just 20 feet over. Now, I think it's likely due to interference because between the modem / router, there are at least 3 large mirrors between the modem / router and the bedroom.

[Cody_Irwin]

HOLY CRAP! I thought I was the only one?

My internet in middle of games, will drop connection for like 5 secs and reconnects just playing regularly.
I only have the Modem/Phone combo thing, where the internet cable goes from modem to my personal router.

I have had this problem for YEARS.
I just have the one where it allows TWC Cable Internet and Phone. It does not do wifi or anything special its just a modem.

Now, with my problem as I said I will drop connection for 5 seconds and in game waiting like on league of legends ect. will say Reconnecting in middle of screen.

I have since over the years changed my PERSONAL Router about 3 times to see if it was that. Turns out no.

It is either CRAPPY WORN OUT Cables from TWC for their Internet Cables, or its their modems that SUCK.
Period.

I have this problem through my WIFI and straight ethernet into my ROUTER not my TWC Cable Modem.
I have yet to try it with just the Modem its self because That means my whole house is down from internet.


Regardless... TWC If I paid the internet bill here and didn't want to fight with them about it, I would have this issue figured out, and be filing a case against them for horribly managed internet.

Hell It costs 60$ a month on a contract for crappy 30/2 connection while others get the same for like 25$
They don't even provide internet over 5mbps for upload which I would prefer atm.


OH and to Quote this again, I LIVE 10 Blocks away from TWC, and I have these issues.
GOOD GAME!

I'm definitely not liking my TWC modem. While it is convenient that it provides both modem / router capabilities, it's not very good IMO. The internet keeps cutting out - at least the WiFi - which is an issue for me since when that happens it causes the connection to my school's iLab to cut out and I have to reload the program. Sometimes, I forget to save what it is that I'm working on and I have to figure out where I was at before it cut out.

Also - though I"m not sure if this is due to interference or just a crappy WiFi antenna - the signal struggles to get into the bedroom which is just 20 feet over. Now, I think it's likely due to interference because between the modem / router, there are at least 3 large mirrors between the modem / router and the bedroom.

[CDsDontBurn]

That's pretty much how it happens to me. Internet connection just flat out drops for about 5 seconds or so.

[Pablo 54]

Ah. Thanks for the help. Here is why I asked:

2 weeks ago got an email from TWC saying, since I was such a great customer, I was getting my Internet speed doubled for free– can’t tell.

Got my bill the other day, it jumped $20, not for Internet, but for the station package that I don’t use much.

We have the “Triple Package” –Phone, Internet, Cable. The only people that call the house phone are telemarketers.

I have 2 OTA’s that pick up over 30 stations, 16 of them are HD. (these are hooked to my HTPC linked to my server).

Called them yesterday to let them know I was bringing in ALL of my stuff, Modem with E-MTA , boxes etc. and would be switching to just Internet. I was told I “can’t” since someone in my house, this past May, signed us up for a yearlong package. I rent the modem for 3.95 a month. Everything else is mine.

Prior to this, I did not pay any attention to the DOCSIS rating of my modem. I am supposed to have 3.0 and the 8 year old modem I am using is 2.0. Can’t get them to change it.

So, I wait.

[PP Mguire]

Their modems just suck period and this was what I was trying to elaborate on in the other thread similar to this.
Pablo just as an FYI, my modem/router is brand new as of September and it is 2.0 as well. They stuff the cheapest JUNK into their plastic and give it to us. I can speak from experience that ATT's Uverse router/modem thing isn't any better. The slightest stress and the damn things CPU usage shoots to 99% and I'm being throttled as it can't handle many connections (like torrents for example or download manager). I bought this modem and was able to use it for 2 weeks before my service was cut off and havn't been able to get it turned back on yet. Was a Godsend though. If you spend the cash on it, flash it to August firmware asap.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16825120004

[Pablo 54]

I was looking at that one the onther night as well as the Motorola SurfBoard SB6141 DOCSIS 3.0 Cable Modem. Either way, I now have to sit on my hands until the end of May.

I have to have TWC techs come every year because right around May, oddly enough, my HD signal starts to degrade and my RR drops to about 6.5. I have been told by one of the techs that the cable running from the node cuts through 3 yards. He says that's the problem but TWC will not dig it up and replace it.

Funny thing is, the main TWC building sits about a mile from my house. I get to see its massive antenna array EDD.

[PP Mguire]

I was looking at that one the onther night as well as the Motorola SurfBoard SB6141 DOCSIS 3.0 Cable Modem. Either way, I now have to sit on my hands until the end of May.

I have to have TWC techs come every year because right around May, oddly enough, my HD signal starts to degrade and my RR drops to about 6.5. I have been told by one of the techs that the cable running from the node cuts through 3 yards. He says that's the problem but TWC will not dig it up and replace it.

Funny thing is, the main TWC building sits about a mile from my house. I get to see its massive antenna array EDD.

Why do you have to sit around and deal with ****ty service? Any time I have a problem I take no bones about calling them up. I actually have my installers personal cell number. I only ring him up during business hours on the weekdays, but I still call him up if something is wrong. I absolutely hate how I'm stuck with TWC though. I'm literally 5 minutes away from FiOS service
Since I do a lot of 1080p vid I need the upload.

[Pablo 54]

Would love to have FiOS but it does not service my area. I really only have one choice, TWC. There is another carrier but their rates are higher.

[Cody_Irwin]

Well, I live like a quarter mile away that woulda been better to say.
If we all have the same problem in a sense maybe its their cables in the ground?

Oh btw, theres a guy from TWC About 1 block away from me, LITERITALLY like 25sec walking distance with a truck and everything, and I am getting tempted to get to know him and fix my stuff.

My house is just one of those houses that does not want a company coming in here and drilling crap into my house or anything like that if they have to so we don't want to call them in all honesty but I am ready to say screw it and Me do it for the household.


Also I use the modem "ARRIS TM502G"
Btw My complete package is Cable,Internet,Phone, and as you said "Telemarketers" Mainly.

Fios is in my city, but refuses to come "TO THE CITY" as in they are only in the suburbs. They are not even Downtown City Hall, which is pretty stupid.

Other then Verizon Fios, I have to be stuck with TWC, TWC bought out Adelphia who was AWESOME here, IDK WTF they did but they either destroyed their equipment, or tried changing some stuff around and screwed it all up.

After looking into my Modem since I finally found out the IP Address Im even locked on

Channel Type:Docsis 1.x (TDMA) Under system it says... "ARRIS DOCSIS 2.0 / PacketCable 1.0 Touchstone Telephony Modem HW_REV: 02" So yeah... I am prolly being screwed hard as well I assume...

[PP Mguire]

I believe their system is DOCSIS 2, but their modems are just ****. The 2 weeks I had the new modem were flawless.