I've generally been pretty happy with Xfinity's Blast service, I was using the leased modem with wireless router... not the best - I never really got better than 20mbs up and 2mbs down. I decided to go ahead and do what others have done and I purchased the Motorola SB6141 and got a wireless router to compliment. WORKS awesome... 50 down and 12 up. All is beer and pizza - right? WRONG, I also have had a static IP address since I've been with Comcast. It is a requirement of one of my contracts (VPN, Security, all that happy stuff). That's fine I've never had a problem, until I got my new modem. The tech didn't transfer my IP over, fine - right, just call and get it setup again... badda bing. NOPE. I'm on hour three of my marithon phone-fest with comcast. The general concensus is I never had a static IP address because I'm a residential customer and it is only offered to business customers. If I want my static IP, you know the one I have had forever, I have to upgrade to business. I have them look over my account - it's right there - $4.95 a month, every month since I've been a customer. Apparently it's not good enough.
So why the rant. If you have your gateway, and were fortunate enough to get a static IP, don't upgrade to those really nice Motorola Modems, it will likely cost you your static IP. I'm getting old (as you can tell from the long rant) but when did everything get so hard?
And yes I would like a some crackers with my whine.