Need advice on docsis 3.0 cable modem with DMZ and configurable.

Thu Sep 13 12:05:36 MST 2018

ahhh, you're right about https, thanks for reminding me, so I'll have to
give all my links with https, interesting.

yeah i saw that it had all the bells and whistles on your modem, i already
had my bells (WiFi), so now I'm looking for my whistles(cable modem)
separately.

On Thu, Sep 13, 2018, 11:55 AM Stephen Partington <cryptworks at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I haven't found one yet, wreaks havoc on my letsencrypt cert processes.
> however https is not blocked.
>
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 11:43 AM Bob Elzer <bob.elzer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> thanks Stephen, the c7000 is listed at $199, i can get docsis 3.1 for
>> less than that.
>>
>> I just want  my linux box which is my firewall in the dmz of my cable
>> modem for Cox cable.
>>
>> I'm also finding out they block port 80, anyone know if I can get that
>> lifted?
>>
>> The joys of switching ISPs
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 13, 2018, 10:11 AM Stephen Partington <cryptworks at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> you have 2 options, Im my case I used an ubiquity edgerouter lite and it
>>> has Wan +2 Lan ports and full commercial tools for management. but it can
>>> be set to amd a dmz on one port, and your network on the other port in very
>>> little time.
>>> https://www.ubnt.com/edgemax/edgerouter-lite/
>>>
>>> If you want the All in one route, the other one I have used with great
>>> success is the netgear Nighthawk c7000, I only retired it when I moved from
>>> Cable to Fiber.
>>>
>>> https://www.netgear.com/home/products/networking/cable-modems-routers/C7000.aspx
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 9:04 AM Bob Elzer <bob.elzer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I need advice on a docs is 3.0 cable modem.
>>>>
>>>> I just bought a Motorola mb7220-10, it turns out there is nothing that
>>>> is configurable.
>>>>
>>>> It's hard coded to 192.168.100 and I want 192.168.0
>>>>
>>>> There's no DMZ or port forwarding. This was not clear when I ordered it.
>>>>
>>>> So I'm looking for one that I can configure with a DMZ and set to
>>>> 192.168.0, I don't need WiFi and I'd like it to cost under $100. My
>>>> download speed will only be 30mb so I don't need docsis 3.1
>>>>
>>>> Anyone have any recommendations?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Bob
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Sep 12, 2018, 1:36 PM Stephen Partington <cryptworks at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> In some places they even have fiber to the prem. (me)
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 12:02 PM Michael Butash <michael at butash.net>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> You need to make sure your modem supports 3.1 too, don't forget that.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cox has just recently finished upgrading to all the new 3.1 hardware
>>>>>> here, and phoenix tends to be their technology leader market due to being
>>>>>> their biggest, so I'd be surprised if comcast has done more rural areas.
>>>>>> They always seem to be the first to fight any sort of rural network
>>>>>> legislation as they hate wasting their capital on non-rich areas, so make
>>>>>> sure they can even support the 8-24 channels down needed for those speeds.
>>>>>> You'd be amazed how screwed up cable plants can be in rural/old areas that
>>>>>> in some cases, they just cannot support the rates.  Tempe was like this for
>>>>>> a long while here due to the original podunk cable co that built it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cox is actually one of the better cable MSO's out there sadly.  My
>>>>>> first job in tech in '99 was @home networks that pioneered cable modem
>>>>>> tech, and taught the cable behemoths about that little internet thing, and
>>>>>> dealing with them all from comcast, cox, intermedia, att, and others, cox
>>>>>> was always one of the least crappy of them.  So much I even worked for them
>>>>>> after for a bit (more crappy to work for imho).  Not perfect, but
>>>>>> definitely better.  If you like to pirate media, oddly they were one of the
>>>>>> strongest to reject lawsuits, abuse subpoenas, and other media cartel
>>>>>> incursions on human rights, where comcast (being the ultimate media whore
>>>>>> thanks to corrupt/owned fcc) is the opposite...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That said, I've been having more frequent outages (including 2
>>>>>> yesterday) with Cox, and they're steadily warning and charging me for
>>>>>> bandwidth now, so I'm having Centurylink installed to check out that is
>>>>>> almost double the speed and $25 less than my cox bill now.  As much as I
>>>>>> hate Centurylink, they don't have the bandwidth caps, that started with
>>>>>> Comcast coincidentally, and Cox can stick it now (pun intended) that they
>>>>>> impose them too if I'm just going to go over monthly.  Joy of having both
>>>>>> services at least temporarily is I can steer traffic out either/both with
>>>>>> my Fortigate firewall with sd-wan features, so going to play a month or two
>>>>>> before I can one or the other to see...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -mb
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 10:01 PM, Jim <jim.nantz15 at comcast.net>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I found out Tuesday what was causing me to not get the speed I was
>>>>>>> told I should get.  Once again the Comcast guy I was talking to said he
>>>>>>> wanted to send out a repairman to find out why I wasn't getting the 150
>>>>>>> Mbps everything told him I should be getting.  Tuesday morning the
>>>>>>> repairman showed up with his supervisor.  The supervisor told me the 150
>>>>>>> Mbps speed is for customers in areas that are served with a docsis 3.1
>>>>>>> network, but where I live is served by a docsis 3.1 network.  Because of
>>>>>>> this I get 100 Mbps, but could get 150 if I wanted to pay more. Then he
>>>>>>> said the network in this area isn't able to supply everyone with 150 Mbps,
>>>>>>> and no he doesn't know when this area will be upgraded.  I was amazed that
>>>>>>> all the corporate people I talked to didn't know that this was the case.
>>>>>>> They all said I should be getting 150.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> After the repairman and his boss left, I called and emailed the
>>>>>>> corporate people who had been telling me I should be getting 150 and told
>>>>>>> them what the local supervisor said.  Later one of them called back and
>>>>>>> agreed with me that since I had been told I should be getting 150, that he
>>>>>>> would give it to me for the price I'm paying now.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is Cox as fscked up as Comcast?
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>>>>> Stephen
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