hottboiinnc
ME
join:2003-10-15
Cleveland, OH
 ·Time Warner Cable
·buckeye cable
| reply to Bill
Re: Will they be supplying the hardware?
i've had TWC home networking and they leave the modems combos wide open.
TWC WOH uses Toshiba cable modems with built in wireless routers in them. and if you ask and they feel like giving it to you they'll give you a new netgear modem/wi-fi router. |
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Skyrunner8
join:2002-01-10
Berkeley, CA
| What they should do is have it so Wireless is enabled by default, but it requires you to do a song and dance to get it set up.
EXAMPLE:
You connect to your access point with wireless. It lets you connect to a page saying This is how you set up your Wireless Computer for Internet access. It involves a password and your ISP account username. Then it should automatically pick up mac address, give you specific instructions on how to set up your computer to use encryption. This leaves their network Only to their customers, and customers get an easy(er) way of securing their Wireless Internet.
But of course, this is too much work for a company to do...when they can just not do it and get away with it anwyay
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hottboiinnc
ME
join:2003-10-15
Cleveland, OH
·Time Warner Cable
·buckeye cable
| yah they should but they don't.
I have a New Edge Networks modem/router that they use for cable and DSL. and i tried to set it up for WEP/WPA and if i enable it or MAC Filtering the router/modem won't even allow computers to logon.
From TWC WOH the only way to get wi-fi access in the house is have the "professional" install and the tech is "setting up" everything to "protect" the customer. But the only thing they do or did for me was change the SSID from the factorty settings to my address. after that the tech left. |
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CableGei
Premium
join:2004-05-27
Brookville, OH
 ·Verizon Online DSL
·Cincinnati Bell
 ·magicjack.com
 ·Sprint Mobile Broa..
 ·tw telecom
| reply to hottboiinnc
TWC has been offering home networking for quite some time now. At least since 2002, if not earlier. Some of the earlier options used CAT5 ethernet lines or HPNA. 802.11b wireless was adopted soon after and more TWC divisions are moving to 802.11g.
To say that TWC leaves everything wide open is very broad. The installer may have done it in your case (shouldn't have unless you wanted it that way), but that is not the standard procedure.
Recently corporate changed the standard procedure to include configuring 128-bit encryption (previously 64-bit). This is to be done at every installation, unless the customer doesn't want it OR there are hardware/software issues with customer equipment that prevent it from working properly. |
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hottboiinnc
ME
join:2003-10-15
Cleveland, OH
·Time Warner Cable
·buckeye cable
| everyone i know that has wireless networking with TWC WOH they left the network wide open- no protection of any type.
i set out side some of my friends house times and use their internet and talk to them. then tell them I'm sitting outside their house on their porch.
After that i use my own Wi-Fi Router and manage it myself. |
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novaflare
The Dragon Was Here
Premium
join:2002-01-24
Barberton, OH
| reply to hottboiinnc
Here where i live twc offers a router not sure current brand for one time fee of 50 bucks. When they first started offering a few years back it was a linksys befsr41 at the time this router would cost you 75 to 100 every where else. I bought min 2 or 3 weeks before they started offering it. I assked them when it was first offered if i had full control of the router. They told me it was a standard router with standard default configuration just like the one i already has so yes full conrol over it. You better beleive had i known they were gona start offering this id have bought from them. I paid 85 for mine heh. Some times twc and other cabl companies accualy seem to want to keep their customers happy 
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hottboiinnc
ME
join:2003-10-15
Cleveland, OH | did you get full control over the router? |
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