<p>The one we ditched that was acting up was a linksys. There is also an old trendnet box down there. Both are going to the recycle heap.</p>
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<p>If they’re not completely dead and there’s some tech enthusiast kids/young adults you/your H knows in their social circle, you may want to consider giving it to them to tinker with after setting back to default factory settings. </p>
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<p>Comcast wants to give us a new modem because they’re giving us Infinity BLAST! for no extra charge and we have an old 25Mbps modem. An old 25 Mbps modem that almost never has trouble. We have our own router, a Netgear WNDR3700. Our desktop and laptop are networked via the router, and we also have an external hard drive plugged into the router. It all works and I’m afraid to change anything. We are satisfied with our current speed so I may just ignore Comcast. If I thought I could just switch out modems with no issues I’d do it, but I don’t trust any changes to work correctly.</p>
<p>One of my previous colleagues found some info about how a specific brand/model of router could be reprogrammed/reflashed into a Linux computer. He actually went out, bought one and turned it into a diskless computer running some low-end embedded Linux OS and he was pleased with his accomplishment and wanted to display it somewhere in the house. But he said his wife did not allow him to do this after a few days because it does not “look great”. It was then sitting in his basement and was unused. This was the most geeky thing that I had heard of in that year.</p>
<p>Yay! Good thread! Can we talk signal boosters/range extenders, and the ISP rules that go with ? How about the the TP-LINK?</p>