Scott Dier <dieman+tclug at ringworld.org> writes: > * Matthew S. Hallacy <poptix at techmonkeys.org> [011227 04:46]: > > don't want to. AT&T has been swapping the 3Com's (Tailfin/Sharkfin 3C292XX) > > I'm going for the 'buy your own modem and get $10 back a month' idea. :) A few questions come to mind with this idea: - How long does it take for the investment to pay off? ie. $10/month for how many months to make up the cost of the modem. - Will the same cable modem still be useful after that much time? - What's to keep AT&T from changing the technology used so that you need to buy a new cable modem? - How long will it be before something better comes out? -- Jon Schewe | http://mtu.net/~jpschewe | jpschewe at mtu.net For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 8:38-39