Under each category, (modems, routers, or modem/router combos), look very carefully for the model number of your equipment. The list is broken down by (in order that they’re on the page from top to bottom) modems, routers, WiFi Pods, modem/router combos, and the list goes on. If the link in ‘ s post doesn’t provide you any help, then try the following link, which is a full list of Spectrum-supplied equipment. When they came out to fix things, they replaced the Arris BG860 with one of their newer WiFi capable modem/routers (it’s branded as “Spectrum” so we have no idea who actually made it?!?!) but they left her voice modem “as is” even though the new modem/router also included voice capability (it has two phone jacks on the rear and two status lights for Tel1 & Tel2 on the front.) I never really understood why they did that since she discovered the voice modem can also supply internet connectivity (she once had a problem with the internet modem not working and, until they could get a tech out to fix it, they “temporarily” activated internet access thru the voice modem.)

My Aunt has Spectrum internet + voice and the tech installed an Arris BG860 cable modem for her high-speed internet and an Arris TM1602a cable modem for the voice part when it was first activated.

It is my understanding that you are required to use a Spectrum modem if you have Spectrum voice.Ĭorrect but they may provide two different modems. In the meantime, beware the Spectrum WiFi 6 Router!

Old and obsolete now… Question: Does anyone know of such a modern-day Linksys router that runs on Linux, so I can tweak things my way, without having Charter know the color of my bath towel? Had one that ran for YEARS without an issue. Linksys used to make some very good routers that ran on Linux. 2: Get a decent router of my own and tell them to take this thing and…oh, this IS a family forum, sorry. Well, guess what? I’m not going to do it! Step 1: Peel the label off the back of the router, and hide THAT in a safe. It’s obvious that Spectrum, not content to suck all the data it can out of this Hardwired Horror, wants you to plunge down the rabbit hole and give it all up. What a “ween of blathers!”Īnd even if you used the app, from what I read the thing won’t let you do half the things you could with the old 5260…which, I admit was not much, but more then you can with this thing. Man, if I downloaded and “used the app” every time I was exhorted to, my phone would get so constipated it wouldn’t work at all. (Everyone wants you to “USE THE APP!” Even my bank thinks that using their app “increases my security”!! ) Plug and Play.Īnd entering the gateway IP address to configure the thing only takes you to a Spectrum site that eventually tells you to download the app! I have read a thread on Reddit that only Spectrum Business customers have access to the router’s web interface. I call it “Idiot’s Delight”, as that appears who it’s made for. Problems: This thing has it’s password imprinted on the back label, and the ONLY way you can change it is by using their app! Yes, the password is unique to each individual unit, but this is hardly secure from the party guest/relative/contractor from turning the thing around and seeing it! Recently the Spectrum Sagecom FAST 5260 router croaked, and Spectrum replaced it with something The Devil made, a “WiFi 6 Router model SAX something or other”.

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