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said by codee:said by iansltx:Actually Webstars are good modems. Basic, but good. Ambits OTOH...mainly the DOCSIS 1.1/2.0 ones... Any Ambit I come across tends to go right back to the warehouse. Moto 5120 is where its at. RCA/Teryon/Ambit/Toshiba....no thanks. I have the SB-5120 (in fact, I've had it since 2005) and, despite sucky signal (behind three splitters; I wouind up losing the "homerun hotwire" I had to the modem in an inside-wiring reconfiguration) it still runs like a champ. (This is a personally-owned SB-5120, and one of the oldest in all of Comcast; I bought it at the Concord Mall Best Buy in July 2005, and have been its only owner.) RCA's DCM 2xx/3xx (the "cinder block", due to their color and blockish-shape) can be quite good (depending on the CMTS deployed; unlike Moto's SurfBoards, the RCAs are partial to ARRIS CMTS gear). I loathe Terayon (I've seen some deployed in Charles County, and have always recommended replacement when possible with Motorola or RCA), and have not seen any Ambit/Ubee (the only S-A/Cisco DPC gear I've even seen has been in Washington, DC, an ex-ATTBI system; I've heard positive comments on the DPC-2xxx).
I've not seen the DPC-3xxx or SB-6120 live anywhere in the area (despite D3 being active in nearly half of Comcast's DC area footprint); however, that is likely because (at least in my subdivision) Comcast has been primarily a cable-TV provider (Prince George's and Howard Counties were among the first deployments of DOCSIS, of any sort, in all of Maryland; I personally never had a non-DOCSIS modem, not even in the AtHome days of 2000). The increased interest in broadband came simultaneously with the deployment of FIOS (now headed for its third year for Internet and phone, and second for TV); however, the growth of FIOS Internet was not at Comcast's expense, as Comcast had few CHSI customers (and only one other than me going back to 2001; that customer moved out of the subdivision, so I've pretty much been the subsidivion's only CHSI customer). |
