I had been meaning to upgrade, aside from saving that $8/mo “equipment rental” fee from Time Warner, I wanted to get the speed boost that comes with the newer DOCSIS specification – the Ambit was using DOCSIS 2.1 according to its firmware. While shopping for a Netgear router (which I DO still highly recommend), I stumbled upon a bundle deal, where I got a brand new router and a Netgear CM400 DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem. In a future post, I’ll go in to the details about why I will no longer be a Linksys customer, and why Linksys is now on my NO RECOMMEND list. Meanwhile, I’ve been having problems with my only-a-year-old Linksys router. These things have a life expectancy of maybe 2 years, so they definitely got their money out of that device (and me). I’ve been “renting” an old Ambit cable modem from Time Warner for about 4 years now… so $8 per month, 4 years, 12 months per year, that’s $384 that I’ve “spent” on a router/modem that’s MAYBE worth $30 brand new (Ambit, now uBee, is a cheap piece of crap).
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