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reply to revuney

Re: help with comcast and motorola 5100 surfboard.

said by revuney:

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Hello.
Help?

Not to Necromance a several-day-old thread, but I just recently switched to Comcast.. And I Bought a Motorola 5100 from Circuit City, and I'm in an Ex-ATTBI area. And I have the 4/384 plan, and guess what.. my uploads are around ~200 or so. (I'll copy/paste my signal levels in in just a sec..)

Point being, should I try swapping for another modem? I have a friend who has a spare Dlink DCM-202. Would that be a good replacement? Oh should I go with something like a 5120, or a Toshiba Pcx2600?

Speed test:
2004-08-11 14:41:22 Speed test @ chi.speakeasy.net 4017/200 kbps

Help?

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Ok. Well dernit.
My local Best Buy has the choice of the following:
Linksys BEFCMU10 (Version 4 I think)
Dlink DCM-202
and the Motorola 5100.

Seeing as how I'm going on vacation for a bit, and my house mate would probably shoot me if he doesn't have net access, I need to choose something. I'd rather just order one on line, But I need to get one before I leave for vacation.

So which of the above three pieces of junk would be the least Junkiest? I searched around here, and it seems that the Linksys *might* have BitTorrent issues, and that the Dlink might not even work out of the box on Comcast systems.

Halp?

Edit: Of course I also have the local choices of Wal-mart or Circuit City.. But I do beleive that both Only sell Sb5100's... Anyone care to confirm/deny that they carry other cable modem models?

Danke.

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