Ubuntu Network Restart Required with Rogers (?) and Setting Modem Password

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 03:54:09PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> Do you actually have to have Rogers do that?  I didn't (with my DOCSIS
> 2 (i.e. old)) modem.  Or with my sequence of ADSL and VDSL2 modems.
> Too bad that the wireless portion (if any) goes to waste or worse (i.e.
> becomes a security hole).
> 
> Bell forced my ISP to force me to rent a VDSL2 modem with wireless
> (and bugs).

I run my VDSL2 modem with wifi turned off, and in PPPoE bypass mode.
My router does the PPPoE instead.

> BTW, Rogers keeps changing the deals underneath me.  Without informing
> me to my satisfaction.

They might send an email to your rogers yahoo mail account.

> I bought my modem from Rogers because they said that I'd get "Extreme"
> service at no additional cost over the lower tier if I did so.  I
> think that they forgot that promise.
> 
> Furthermore, I think that I'm paying for more speed than my modem
> can deliver.  They haven't told me that.  When a Rogers sales person
> phoned to review my account, they could not answer questions about
> that.

I did that deal years ago, and the service you get is in fact different
than the service people would get with a newer modem.

With the old modem you are limited to 10Mbps, but your quota is 95GB.
With the newer modem you get 15Mbps or something like that, but only 60GB
transfer quota.  Price is the same either way and both are named Extreme.

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Len Sorensen
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