 NightfallMy Goal Is To Deny YoursPremium,MVM
join:2001-08-03
Grand Rapids, MI | Don't like the fee? Buy your own modem. Problem solved. |
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| Yup. No reason to bitch and complain |
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 n2jtx
join:2001-01-13
Glen Head, NY | reply to Nightfall
said by Nightfall:Buy your own modem. Problem solved.
Read it again:
Frontier Communications recently started charging everyone a $7 "modem support and warranty fee" whether you own your modem or not.
I myself still own my Optimum Online modem. If Optimum suddenly inserts a fee in my bill, they are getting a copy of the receipt for the modem.
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Your 100 percent right, its not your modem its the companies so they are chargin you to use there stuff, buy your own your all good |
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| what about EMTA's Does TWC allow you to purchase your own EMTA's as well???
Comcast does, but my understanding is NOT in all of their service areas, & ONLY from participating Best Buy's...just did this very thing last month. |
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| ... This is bs. I refuse to pay $4 rental fee for this $25 cisco modem so I already brought Moto SB5101U today on ebay for like $22 bucks. You not getting any more money from me, not even one cent from me
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Re: what about EMTA's Yes. The fee in my area was $2.50 a month last month, so this is a 60% increase. Not trivial. At this price however it makes sense to buy your own. I just got rid of an 8 year old 5120 last week, and I paid $50 for it initially.
At $2.50 a month it has a 2 year break even, but $4, almost 1 year and you are better off w/ your own.
Frontier $7 is the reverse Morris trust tax  thanks to Verizon.
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KearnstdElf WizardPremium
join:2002-01-22
Mullica Hill, NJ | reply to dragonman300
Re: ... just be warned if it does not activate its because its off ebay. sometimes the ones on ebay are sold off rental units flagged as stolen in a carrier's system.
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NightfallMy Goal Is To Deny YoursPremium,MVM
join:2001-08-03
Grand Rapids, MI Reviews:
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·Callcentric
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Re: Don't like the fee? said by n2jtx:said by Nightfall:Buy your own modem. Problem solved.
Read it again: Frontier Communications recently started charging everyone a $7 "modem support and warranty fee" whether you own your modem or not. I myself still own my Optimum Online modem. If Optimum suddenly inserts a fee in my bill, they are getting a copy of the receipt for the modem. The article was on Time Warner Cable, not Frontier. Otherwise I agree with you. Frontier is ripping people off. Time Warner's letter is simply that they are starting to charge for leased modems. If you want to buy your own, then there is a list of approved modems to use. This is all dictated in the letter.
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 PathfinderDazed ConfusedPremium
join:2000-03-26
Mount Vernon, NY
·Verizon FiOS
·RoadRunner Cable
1 edit | reply to Nightfall
At $139 it isn't really problem solved. Of course I could get a used one cheaper off Amazon or Ebay but that is a pig in a poke. It may be able to be activated or it may not.
Either way, it is an increase in price. That is the problem.
Edit.
In addition, I checked the approved list and don't see any modems on there that support telephone service.
Approved modems
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| re lets not mention they raised prices in so cal by 8 dollars |
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Re: Don't like the fee? It's still a price increase+reduction in service. |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 | reply to Pathfinder
You guys have 8x4 channel bonding online in NYC though. That couple bucks a month is actually going toward upgrades. |
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DampierPhillip M Dampier
join:2003-03-23
Rochester, NY
1 edit | reply to Nightfall
Updated: Sorry, my bad. I went for the 6141 modem... the 6121 is not on the update list. It was $20 more and hard to find... out the door price is at least $100 for the 6141.
I have put up more information about this fee and quick reviews of the VERY limited choices TWC is giving customers as far as purchased cable modems go on Stop the Cap!:
»stopthecap.com/2012/10/02/time-w···tal-fee/
In short, buy a DOCSIS 3 modem no matter what, and buy sooner rather than later. Amazon has some good prices, but they won't last as the surge of new buyers arrive. I went for the Motorola SB6121 SURFboard DOCSIS 3.0 Cable Modem ($80) for these reasons:
1) Value for money: You can recoup this investment in about two years with TWC's new pricing scheme and have a D3 modem that will last at least five years before technology makes this obsolete.
2) Combo cable modem/routers are usually a bad idea and don't perform as well as standalone routers running third party firmware. I am keeping my Linksys N router running DDWRT thank you. The current D3 modem (Ubee) was a real pain with Wi-Fi so I have mine in bridge mode.
3) The D2 modems are not much less than the SB6121. The one wireless combo D2 modem is G only, and has gotten very mixed reviews.
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DampierPhillip M Dampier
join:2003-03-23
Rochester, NY | reply to iansltx
said by iansltx:You guys have 8x4 channel bonding online in NYC though. That couple bucks a month is actually going toward upgrades.
This could be a problem. The D3 modems on the approved list seem to support up to 4x4 bonded channels. Can a firmware upgrade address this? |
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| said by Dampier:The D3 modems on the approved list seem to support up to 4x4 bonded channels. Can a firmware upgrade address this?
No, it's a hardware chip limitation. Updating firmware won't change that. |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 | reply to Dampier
Nope. |
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| "Approved" Modems Why do they only approve 3 DOCSIS 2.0 modems (ALL Motorola) when they have nearly 40 models from different manufacturers that they use for lease? The 2 Motorola modems they approve that I can use (the third being wireless, which I don't use) have some troubling reviews on Amazon. It looks like TWC is giving me little choice but to swallow their increase and use their modem. Also, how long until they start charging for the modem used for digital phone? I bet it won't be far behind. |
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| Free modem holdouts reverse course, add fees From CED Magazine
Free modem holdouts reverse course, add fees
Tue, 10/02/2012 - 1:45pm Brian Santo
Time Warner Cable (TWC) and Bright House Networks have both recently announced that they will begin charging their customers rental fees for cable modems.
Many other large MSOs, notably Comcast, have long charged their customers such a fee.
TWC announced it will begin charging all of its customers a monthly fee of $3.95 for rentals and maintenance. The company has levied the fee on new customers who have signed up since January, according to Investors Business Daily.
TWC customers can avoid the fee by purchasing and installing their own modems.
It is too early to tell how many customers will do so, so estimates vary on how much revenue the fee might generate. One estimate tags it as high as $500 million annually.
Bright House notified its customers two weeks ago that it will begin to levy a $2 monthly fee, starting this month. The move was reported by the Tampa Bay Times. The fee will not be assessed on those who purchase and install their own modems. |
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| By comparison.. No rental fee on FIOS equipment..
So, yep.. a $3.95 price hike... and you'll probably get hit with taxes ontop of it too.. meanwhile, they've done nothing but grab more and more money from the consumer.. |
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