If you must have a home phone, and can't get by with just your cell phone, why not ditch the landline and run your voice calls through your ISP with either MagicJack, Oooma, or something similar? Should save you $20 per month or so on your home phone line. On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 11:18 PM, Jeff Jensen <jjensen at apache.org> wrote: > I'm probably switching from CenturyLink to Comcast [yes, both are loser > monopoly companies] since CL top speed to my house is 12/.8 and planning on > CC 50/10. > > I prefer to buy a good modem/router (and wonder about the "lucky dip" > they'll send). Plus, at $8 rental, a purchase pays for itself in 8-16 > months (depends on price of course). > > I plan to switch the landline as well. Does the cable modem then need a > phone connector/jack as well or what is the connection? (I've only ever > used DSL) > > I've been looking at [0] and [1]. I'm a Netgear fan so the N450 and N600 > stand out to me. But I did not see any of them mention phone capability. > > I don't need wireless on it (have another unit that provides that) but > fine if it does. My current DSL router has it but I turned it off. > > So I'm wondering if anyone has cable modem purchase recommendations for > me? Or is the recommendation to rent theirs? > > > [0] http://mydeviceinfo.comcast.net/ > [1] http://mynewmodem.comcast.net/ > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140619/3e71fa8f/attachment-0001.html>