Buy your own modem

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chgo_man99 join:2010-01-01 Schaumburg, IL Reviews: ·AT&T U-Verse ·Mediacom ·T-Mobile US	Buy your own modem You can get a Docsis 3.0 modem at a decent price! Motorola and Zoom sell them. Don't rent a modem, its a pure old cash cow. They rent out old models. I had RCN too and had problems with them sometimes too, especially Internet. The best you can do to relieve this situation is to get a back up connection (ATT DSL - which is cheap now) or 4G (Wimax) from Clear. Just make sure you get a dual wan router or if you get another wireless router for wi-fi connection make sure they do not overlap on the same channel. The non-overlaping channels are 1,6,11m (talking about g standard, dunno about n). You can always go with a long twisted pair Ethernet cable
	to review · permalink · 2010-11-03 19:25:54 ·
roscoe join:2001-11-10 Chicago, IL	Thanks for the reply to my review. RCN has told me that I must use their VOIP modem. Is this true? Thanks
roscoe join:2001-11-10 Chicago, IL	to review · permalink · 2010-11-03 20:51:41 ·
chgo_man99 join:2010-01-01 Schaumburg, IL Reviews: ·AT&T U-Verse ·Mediacom ·T-Mobile US	You probably don't have too if they have a voip adapter . The way it works is this: cable modem--> voip adapter + phone --> gateway (router)--> pcs you must likely use gateway with built-in voip, modem and router. I only use cell phone and never used VOIP so I have no exact idea. Where I lived and live now coverage has been always good both inside and outside. Now with 3G microcells less people depend on voip or pots (traditional)
	to review · permalink · 2010-11-03 21:33:38 ·

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