Internet grumblings

[kimberkit]

RoadRunner is currently $60/month from TimeWarner. This is a lot for a month of internet. I'd go so far as to say that $60/month for high speed access is Highway Robbery!

Unfortunately, DSL (as well as the newer technology, FiOS) isn't available where I am. What's the competition for TimeWarner's cable modem service? Earthlink cable modem service. Is there any other competition? Nope. So I tried to switch to Earthlink.

I called Earthlink and apparently, TimeWarner does Earthlink's installations. So I called TimeWarner to set up an appointment. According to the TimeWarner representative I spoke to, I can't use my router to split the connection. I find that majorly weird, and really unlikely. Is TimeWarner lying to me? Someone computer-savvy... is that POSSIBLE, to not split a connection?

Comments

[moonlit-me.livejournal.com]

They may just not provide technical support, or have an agreement in the contract that you not use it. Of course it's possible to share the connection, but if the company uses a nonstandard setup it could be more of a pain than just throwing a hardware router in front. Still, you can get something working--worst case scenario, you need to set up one of your machines as a router, instead of using the regular router.

But usually the router will work. You may have an agreement with them not to use more than one IP address--but a router hides all your machines behind one address anyway.