Is SureWest TV/broadband any good?
I had the original WinFirst fiber-optic service, the whole shebang: Broadband, phone and digital cable. As you probably know, SureWest took over the WinFirst network when they went bankrupt. It sounds as if you’re getting in on *new* SureWest expansion, so my experience may or may not be comparable, but here goes. Get it. It rocks. Losing that service is my only regret about moving out of my old neighborhood and if I had the chance to get it here, I would. I don’t know about your airport, but the service I had was tied to a MAC address on my machine. Later, I got a Netgear router that cloned that address and I hooked up all my machines that way. You could buy separate static IPs for your other machines, but I didn’t need that, and the router served just fine. There was no modem, but they did install some sort of box in the garage that handled all of the services. The guy who did the install did a beautiful clean job. Again, this was all before the SureWest acquisition, so YMMV. Give th
