[Novalug] New Cable adapter

[Scott Musman]

I got totally PO'd at Cox and their cable modems. I had on again, off
again problems. Went through Toshiba, Motorola and Zoom modems, each
time buying something that was on "their" list only to find that their
list would change and that they wouldn't support it 6 months later when
I was still having intermittent problems. In the end I gave up and
switched.

Here's an evil little trick to try with Cox.. Double check this to see
if this still works. It used to be you could sign up for their
"protection program" for $4/month. With that plan in place they would
replace your modem for free, with one of theirs.. The deal was that you
could drop the plan anytime you want, so you can basically get a
replacement modem for cheap. The only "gotcha" was that once you quit
the plan you couldn't sign up for it again for 1 year. So if you're
overall happy with everything else then that's not much of a risk.

This trick might not work anymore, but it might worth checking out. Best
of luck,

	- Scott

On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 21:00 -0400, Stephen Cicirelli wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> So I got an e-mail from Cox and it lists all the current "compatible"
> cable modems.  My current Toshiba PCX1100U doesn't owe me a thing at
> this point but it does lose connection to the Internet when ever I
> fire up a high bandwidth app (WoW, bit-torrent etc.) and has to be
> reset once or twice before it works without dropping dead.
> 
> Do, any compelling reasons to go with a DOCSIS 3.0?
> 
> Anyone have any experience with the following?  More to the point
> anyone want to tell to run screaming away from any of them?
> 
> Brand	Model	DOCSIS
> Ambit 	60678EU	1.x, 2.0
> Ambit	U10C018 	2.0
> Cisco 	DPC3000 	3.0
> D-Link 	DCM-202 	1.x, 2.0
> Joohong 	SL2810 	2.0
> Linksys	BEFCMU10 v3 	1.x, 2.0
> Linksys	BEFCMU10 v4 	1.x, 2.0
> Linksys	CM100 	1.x, 2.0
> Linksys	WCG200	1.x, 2.0
> Linksys	WCG200 v2 	1.x, 2.0
> Motorola 	SB5100	1.x, 2.0
> Motorola	SB5101 	1.x, 2.0
> Motorola	SB5120	1.x, 2.0
> Motorola	SBG900 	1.x, 2.0
> Motorola	SBG901 	1.x, 2.0
> Motorola	SB6120 	3.0
> RCA 	DCM315R	2.0
> RCA	DCM425 	2.0
> Scientific Atlanta 	DPX2100 	2.0
> Scientific Atlanta	DPC2100 	2.0
> SMC 	SMC8004 	1.x
> SMC		SMC8013 	1.x, 2.0
> Terayon 	TJ715	1.x, 2.0
> Terayon	TJ715x 	1.x, 2.0
> Toshiba 	PCX2600 	1.x, 2.0
> Zoom 	5241 	1.x, 2.0
> 
> Thanks,
> Stephen
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