Got a little easy-to-lose / easy-to-miss postcard in the mail last Friday. Time Warner Cable NYC has decided to charge us $3.50/month for cable modem rental. These are the same people from whom renting a CableCard without a cable box is more expensive than cable box + CableCard. Riddle me that. And these are the same people whose service is complete and utter horseshit. If it weren't - and I got what I paid for in the first place - I might not be so pissed. But we routinely get ~1 Mbps when we're paying for 5 Mbps (w/Turbo up to 10Mbps). Part of the reason we don't pay for more is that they can't deliver 5 Mbps, I have no reason to pay for 20 Mbps.
If I had the choice and they didn't have a local monopoly, I'd leave in a hot minute. Additionally frustrating that VZ has stopped FiOS rollout after promising to come to my building.
So... TWC has a list of 5 approved cable modems (2 of which are DOCSIS 3.0). A couple questions for you smarties...
If I had the choice and they didn't have a local monopoly, I'd leave in a hot minute. Additionally frustrating that VZ has stopped FiOS rollout after promising to come to my building.
So... TWC has a list of 5 approved cable modems (2 of which are DOCSIS 3.0). A couple questions for you smarties...
- Should I get a cheapo DOCSIS 2 modem (~$50) since I'm not getting 3.0 service, or should I pay $80 for the DOCSIS 3.0 device for future-proofing?
- Has anyone gotten their cable company to support a cable modem that's not on their approved list?
- Are there any alternatives I can implement right now? I've tried CLEAR, and it has awful pings.