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I called Time Warner Cable yesterday to find out the costs of Roadrunner Business Class service (motto: Same unreliability as normal Roadrunner, now for twice the cost!) I want to get service that I could use to host my home business websites. Turns out that some new packages will be debuting August 2nd. The most exciting one offers 768/768Kb and one static IP for $180/month.

Then again, what’s to stop me from ordering another residential cable modem and aggregating the two together? I already get 3 Mb/s down and 384 Kb/s up. If I bridged two cable modems together, that would give me an effective 6 Mb/s down and 768 Kb/s up for the cost of the low-end business service ($80). I’d have to do some tricker Dynamic DNS stuff to use two dynamic IPs, but I think it could be done.

  1. Then again, what’s to stop me from ordering another residential cable modem and aggregating the two together?

    Road Runner authorizes cable modem access using the MAC address. If you just plug a new modem into the cable, you won’t get connected until RR puts the MAC on their list. This is how they stop Joe User from buying a cable modem at CompUSA and getting free broadband service.

  2. Note the word “ordering” above. I mean to order another modem from Time Warner. I’m well aware of how DOCSIS works. 🙂

  3. RR will still charge extra for the second modem. And I’m sure that the residential contract has a section in it that forbids the use of this service for business purposes.

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