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Modem/Wifi Router advice

Discussion in 'General' started by zx6rfool, Jun 7, 2017.

  1. zx6rfool

    zx6rfool Stacks Wood

  2. GixxerBlade

    GixxerBlade Oh geez

    I rent the Motorola one from Spectrum. Pretty high speed. I get about 100 Mbps download and 50 Mbps upload with it and pay for 200. YMMV.
     
  3. R Acree

    R Acree Banned

    Either will work. I'd go for Netgear.
     
  4. zx6rfool

    zx6rfool Stacks Wood

    Thanks guys!
     
  5. zx6rfool

    zx6rfool Stacks Wood

  6. R Acree

    R Acree Banned

    Who is your provider? I know Comcast has a list of modems that work on their system. I use a separate modem and wireless router. Phone is magic jack since we rarely answer the land line. I assure you I did not spend $250.
     
  7. zx6rfool

    zx6rfool Stacks Wood

    Comcast. Im wondering if it would be easier to get them separate. We need to have the phone service as both my work when I work from home and my wifes business demand much more than our cells could support.
     
  8. caferace

    caferace No.

    Define: "Support Voice".

    Do you need to plug a phone directly into the modem? Any modem will support VOIP.

    -jim
     
  9. R Acree

    R Acree Banned

    Fax is a little more challenging.
     
  10. zx6rfool

    zx6rfool Stacks Wood

    Yes the modem must have a jack for a phone line.
     
  11. caferace

    caferace No.

    It's just ones and zeros. Nothing complex about it.

    -jim
     
  12. caferace

    caferace No.

    Standard RJ11? What's the model of phone?

    -jim
     
  13. R Acree

    R Acree Banned

    Using VOIP?
     
  14. caferace

    caferace No.

    Yup. (hint: What's the IP in VOIP stand for?)

    -jim
     
  15. Newsshooter

    Newsshooter Well-Known Member

    I had an an issue with older motorola which comcast said didn't support voice and I should be renting one of theirs, I asked her how I could be talking to her right now then? She didn't have a good answer. :) I bought a newer one from Costco and it worked fine. My router and modem are separate too. I don't like combining them when one craps out you have to replace both.
     
  16. Mongo

    Mongo Administrator

    Fax over VOIP is easy. The VOIP modem has multiple outputs since we have multiple lines and the one for the fax number goes to the fax. Wouldn't be any different with a single output and splitting it like you did with a landline at that point.
     
  17. caferace

    caferace No.

    I'm just going to post this here because it made me laugh. :crackup:

    01000011 01101000 01100001 01101111 01110100 01101001 01100011 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01100001 01101110 00100000 01101001 01100100 01101010 01101001 01110100 00101110 00101110 00101110

    -jim
     
  18. R Acree

    R Acree Banned

    I was told it was an issue so i made the blonde woman adapt to scan and email.
     
  19. zx6rfool

    zx6rfool Stacks Wood

    Yep RJ11, phone is Vtec handsets
     
  20. GixxerBlade

    GixxerBlade Oh geez

    Is gixxer still here?
    I think we found a collision.
    01000111 01101001 01111000 01111000 01100101 01110010
     
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