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Old 07-29-2011, 01:13 PM   #868
sclitheroe
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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube View Post
So the non wifi modems are nolonger available? I am on the waiting period for them to get more stock and I suspect they are only going to be ordering wifi modems.

What are the benefits or drawbacks? Maybe I should just stay on my old plan with Xtreme. 25MBps is fine. Save $10 here and there. Won't mess up my network.
There's lots of sawing back and forth about the merits of the SMC modem on various forums like dslreports.com, but at the end of the day, nobody knows the real answer about whether you can request a different modem than the SMC or not - it seems to be their standard issue modem going forward.

When Shaw pushes the bridge mode config down on the SMC, it truly becomes just a modem - none of the web configuration stuff is available, the device itself doesn't have in in-band IP address (ie. you can't ping the modem from you home network anymore), and your router will definitely be out directly on the network.
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