Thank you for all the replies! Very helpful info for me. After learning more today, the modem with phone jacks purchase is a 21 month breakeven, so I will start with rental of it (if I change to CC phone, of course). More things to look at yet... Otherwise, the non-phone ones have better purchase breakeven. On Jun 18, 2014 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/ > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140619/7c10972d/attachment.html>