Cable Modem Recommend

Eric wrote:
> My mother in law is getting Cox internet and I was
> wondering if anybody had cable modem recommendations.

Eric - I have a friend who is moving and wants to get
rid of his cable modem FRIDAY. It is a Toshiba
PCX 2200, same as mine which I've been happy with.
He's hoping for about $30 which sounds about right
to me. I have an original Toshiba CD. If interested
you can call me Friday (I'm in the book) or I'll be
watching my e-mail.

I'm not aware of Cox's procedures for hooking up a
cable modem they didn't sell you. When my old
SurfBoard modem fried (lightning, I think) they
gave me my Toshiba. It took a call to their
support line to get them to probe the new device and
get it enabled, but it was painless.

Cox gives you one IP address, which is DHCP but does
not normally ever change. They will actually sell
you additional IPs but I gather you're not interested
in that anyway.

BTW, while I've been happy with Cox support, they
have just put up a "new improved" page at
support.cox.com that refuses to talk to any browser
but IE, or any OS but Windows. The stupid thing is
that I can switch to Linux and tell Opera to identify
itself as IE5, and it works fine. (Konqueror, I think,
also has an "Identify as..." feature that fails to
fool the Cox site into stifling their rude message.
And apparently Mozilla doesn't have a masquerade
feature, I expected that to be part of the package.)

But Cox is once again pushing their special features
that require installation of support tools on the
client machine. I presume that's the point of the
rude message - they can't put their spyware on a
Linux or OSX box so they don't want to play.
That's no reason for them to hide their basic
information pages from "disapproved" browsers.
Cheez.

I'm going to lodge a complaint about the rude
message, but as I said, in general I've been
totally happy with Cox.

Vic

> ...
> She has a Mac using OSX if this matters. Do you have to use a USB serial
> connection to set things up or will it just work by hooking it up?
>
> I have DSL so I'm really not up on this subject. I saw some modems at
> Comp USA for 59.00 and 79.00 but didn't see much difference other than
> brand.