[BBLISA] comcast ... again

[Rob Taylor]

I'm on comcast and have used my own cable modem and router for years.
When my modem died I took theirs, since they told me that they were
going to charge me a monthly fee regardless of whether I rented their
modem or had my own.

I can see why providers may ship their own devices with some presets, so
as to have less configurations to deal with when people call in, but 5
ip's does seem really low.

I mean, I know people who have

Tivo
VoIP
Wii
PS3
roku box
airport express

And that's not including their pc's or phones.

rgt

On 11/1/2010 7:48 AM, Joe McDonagh wrote:
> On 10/19/2010 10:42 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
>>
>> Because of recent conversations on this list about comcast versus
>> world, I feel compelled to tell this story:
>>
>> I have a friend, who is very computer proficient.  He called me up to
>> talk about an IP address conflict on his home network.  He told me he
>> has comcast, and he has access to login to the comcast router, and the
>> router is configured to give out IP addresses via DHCP, and the
>> dynamic range is from 192.168.0.10 to 192.168.0.14.  So they only give
>> you 5 IP addresses, and if you try to connect a 6th computer, you
>> can't.  You get an IP conflict, and somebody gets booted off the network.
>>
>> I told him, "Well, why don't you just change the dynamic range?"  He
>> said you can't.  He said he spent hours on the phone with comcast, and
>> they told him "Call netgear."  I couldn't believe him.  So he
>> initiated a screen sharing session, and showed me.  We considered
>> flashing a nonstandard firmware onto the comcast router ... which
>> seemed risky ...  I suggested maybe looking up the factory reset for
>> the router.  He said he already did that, and it just resets to
>> Comcast factory condition.
>>
>> He's got a home server, a printer, two laptops, and two desktops.  He
>> can't use them all at the same time.  Nevermind, god forbid, he should
>> have anything like vonage, or a PDA, or a couple of teenage children
>> with computers.
>>
>> We concluded there's only one possible solution:  He needs to buy
>> another router, and hook the outside of his new router to the inside
>> of the comcast router.
>>
>> We concluded there is one, and precisely one, possible reason for
>> comcast to be stingy with the 192.168.x.x IP addresses.  They're just
>> being d**ks and there is no other possible explanation.
>>
>> Oh - Get this - While all his other computers and stuff were on, and
>> his laptop had an IP conflict which was preventing him from starting
>> his screen sharing session ...  I suggested that he just assign
>> himself a static IP address, 192.168.0.15.  He did this.  He could
>> ping the gateway.  But he could not ping outside the gateway.  So in
>> addition to the dynamic range being pathetically small, they also
>> apply a filter to prevent you from using any static IP outside of the
>> dynamic range.  D**ks.
>>
>>
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> I've been using Comcast for years north of Boston and it simply doesn't
> work like this where I live. You don't even have to use one bit of
> Comcast equipment on your line; I've had my own motorola surfboard for
> years, and put whatever I want behind it (dd-wrt, soekris, linksys).
> 
> Frankly I don't even understand how they would accomplish this since
> they don't control the internal LAN. They might control the firmware on
> their router, but just replace it since it's probably garbage anyways.
> 
> 
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