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Re: Need a new cable modem

reply to cableties
Tossed it out?
Never heard of eBay?

reply to gsm8
This is a useful thread for me to piggy-back on

Will my Moto SB5100 handle the speed upgrades, as and when they appear? FiOS is coming to town (it's 1.5 miles away, and they've already dug my backyard and installed fiber pathways). I intend to stick with Adelphia/Comcast because it works more flawlessly with my S3 HD TiVo anyway!

I noticed my (excellent but old DLink) router only handles 10MBPS over WAN, and am about to upgrade it (I need in/out VPN capability anyway, may get an SMC) so I don't lose out ... just wanted to make sure my SB5100 Moto will keep up when the upgrades happen!

I already see my router being the bottleneck - I occasionally spike to 9.5+ Mbps downloads (although I got inadvertently dropped to 384 uploads - that's a whole nother story!), and I bet my router WAN is the culprit (for the 10M max download)!

Thanks, folks!

reply to gsm8
Getting back to gsm8 go over to Fry's in Renton they will have what you need,but no SB5100's.

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Newegg has the SB5101 for a good price: »www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···25122001

I'd rather have the 5101 over the 5120.
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reply to gsm8
The linksys modem shown at Fry's looks like a V2 and you won't want that,a V4 is what you want.

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reply to gsm8
In regards to the 5120, it stinks compared to my 5100. I bought one as a backup. The 5120 works, but is nowhere near as fast as my 5100. The SN ratio is also 4db less than the 5100. If my 5100 dies I will be looking for another modem, will probably go with the Linksys.

As far as the 5100 handling the speed, I've had downloads at over 16mbps, so it will handle that. Don't know how high it can really go. If they offer the 16/1 here I'll find out.

reply to gsm8
I just replaced a 4100 with a 5120 on my Comcast service. The 5120 is much better, the 4100 was dropping lots of packets, not sure why, but the 5120 stopped the problem.

No complaints here with the 5120.

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3... WHAT?

reply to gsm8
Been using my SB5120 for 6 months, it's rock-solid. Beautiful thing.

Downstream Value
Frequency 693000000 Hz
Signal to Noise Ratio 38 dB
QAM QAM256
Network Access Control Object ON
Power Level -5 dBmV

Upstream Value
Channel ID 6
Frequency 35600000 Hz
Ranging Service ID 1280
Symbol Rate 2.560 Msym/s
Power Level 42 dBmV

reply to gsm8
Right now on the 5100:

Downstream Value
Frequency 561000000 Hz Locked
Signal to Noise Ratio 40 dB
Power Level -1 dBmV

The S/N ratio on the 5120 was 34db. I suspect that is the major factor in the difference between the two as far as download speed is concerned.

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said by dadkins:

I have had downloads over 24mbps with my SB5100.

reply to gsm8
Don't get a Bestdata CMX300v2 if you use a bittorent client.I got one free after rebate a couple weeks ago and it freezes up one PC when I run bittorent on another computer on the same network.
I put the Scientific Atlanta modem I got from Comcast back in and all is well.
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reply to k6az
PowerPoost doesn't die off though... not here at least!

(ala Big_D) PermaBoost!
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reply to gsm8
I got curious about this Scientific Atlanta modem I got from CC.There is no identification on it anywhere and I get nothing but a hanging hourglass from typing 192.168.1.1 but it works.I'm not to crazy about the sealed black box aspect of it though.
edit-it looks like it's a Scientific Atlanta DPC2100 but I can't find any info on how to access it.
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reply to gsm8
I thought about a Linksys modem as it would fit with my WRT54G router.

That and the Terayon I have now gets majorly hot.....