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Originally Posted by Hom3r
I remember paying for my old Terayon £150 IIRC, and still have it.
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Back in the day (early noughties) on NTL you had the option of buying or renting your modem. If you bought it upfront, you got a lower monthly sub (about £5 a month off, IIRC). Eventually they stopped doing that, and some time later on they stopped giving the "discount" to people who had paid for the modem, to much loud complaining and thread-starting on this very forum.
When I signed up for NTL's 512kb broadband (Roffle!) I did a quick calculation and concluded there was a reasonable chance any modem I bought from them would cough and die long before I had got £150 worth out of it. So I just rented my Terry from them. Sure enough, it didn't stay the course.