3com Cable Modem and ATTBI (Fixed Link)

[LordThing]

Well, picked up my modem today. Plugged it in and was searching for my customer papers. I even went and got my headset phone ready to settle in for a long haul. But as I had just navigated the phone menu to get a rep, my modem status went green with activity. I was able to ping, surf, whatever. Even checked my bandwidth with a 2-wire check and it came back at 141k. Told the girl on the phone that it provisioned itself and gave her the MAC address anyway just in case they realize that the modem was provisioned and allowed on the network without them even allowing it in their BOOTP tables. Total time from plugging in to on the net, approx 15 minutes.

Happy customer here in Pittsburgh with ATTBI. Definate good deal.

Save $10 bucks a month on my bill, so that means it will pay for itself in 6 months.

Link to the deal.


Edit: Fixed link due to my stupidity.

Edit 2: Just saw a post there that beats my deal of 64 after shipping. A guy has it down to 30 bucks after shipping with a price match!! Dude, wish i could have done that. Check it out!

Edit 3: Link to my Hot Deals post that saves you another 16 off the Amazon price that puts it around $48 AR and shipping.

 

[Moonbeam]

I can't get your link to work.

 

[LordThing]

Well, i did a few more bandwidth tests and I was only getting 140k BITS per second, not bytes. So i called up ATTBI to find out what was going on. Seems my old modem is still showing up. So we went through the online signup, rebooted my computer (router, but she didn't know that ) and now I am up in the 2.9 Megabits per second.

Total Schweeet!!

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Dude... ATTBI has their network set up to where you don't have to manually provision the modems. The modems go out and find out what node/headend/lasergroup/RDC, etc that they're on, send that info with the serial number and MAC address to provision themselves.

What happened with you is how it's supposed to happen on the ATTBI network. I'm not surprised at all that you were up and running so fast.

nik (used to do tech support for ATTBI)