I was planning to get roadrunner for my daughter in the Orlando area. They
told me that she had to use their modem and that owning her own modem would
not lower the price.

Is this normal for roadrunner?

I have Cox and get $15 off each month for owning my own modem.

Thanks

Mike L. <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:

AFAIK, Road Runner's policy is that you can use your own (approved)
modem, but you won't get any discount. In other words, the modem is
bundled with the service and not rented as a separate item.

Mike L. <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
Time Warner in New York seems to be a joke regarding this. I
got my own equipment working with them after a bit of pain, they have no
self registration page for the MAC address of the modem so you have to
spend time on the phone with the (usually) incompetent customer service.

Most of the TWC droids told me that I could keep their modem around
for troubleshooting (Time Warner won't support your modem and if there
were problems I told them I'd swap theirs in to prove it wasn't an
equipment fault). However, the last person I spoke to try to tell me
that once you activate your own equipment Time Warner will try to CHARGE
you for the cost of their modem (as if you never returned it upon
service cancellation) if you don't arrange for them to get it back.
Well, this is ludicrous, they don't discount the monthly fee if you use
your own modem so they certainly shouldn't penalize you for doing so
and not returning the modem because you are effictively still paying to
rent it, right? Needless to say if they ever do charge me the $200 or
whatever silly fee they deem the modem worth then my credit card company
will see the charge in dispute.

My advice to you is: Unless you have something really special
you want to hook up to the line, it's not worth the trouble. I have a
Cisco cable modem that's actually a router (don't tell them that
though, they'll go brain dead and tell you they don't support routers)
and it has some other features (analog phone ports) I wanted to mess
around with so it was worth while for me.

You don't get $15 off each month from Cox, you just don't pay them $15 a
month rental which is of course ridiculous since a Motorola SB5100 is only
$59.99 after a $20 rebate. In 4 months it pays for itself. The rate Cox
quotes is always without a modem, so you add $15 a month if you rent one of
their modems.
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On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 21:09:42 -0700, "OldFartJAC"
<ihatespam@spamupyours.com> wrote:

same?