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reply to bryant313

Re: [ALL] Cox Annual Speed Upgrade

reply to Anonguy
Thanks for the info. I only have a 4x4 Docsis 3 modem. I'm going to buy a 8x4 one tomorrow.

I guess I'll stick with the 6120 for now (4x2 I think) which should be more than enough for the coming upgrade since it's just a small upgrade on the upstream end of things.

Hmm, I must have read something funny a while ago when I bought it...possibly misunderstood as well. 4x4 it is then! Even better for me I'll wait to upgrade when something significantly faster comes out.

reply to bryant313
*Nebraska*

After about 4 hours of downtime lastnight (12-4AM) I noticed that my modem went from 4x4 to 8x4 bonding.. lets hope something nice comes on the 31st!

My routers firmware didn't update though, still using a build from "Jul 16 17:16:46 2012"

jayde, which modem are you using

Based on his image it looks to be a Cisco. Possibly DPC3010. I could be wrong though.

That's what I figured since the Moto's read the channels out horizontally vs vertically like that image

reply to FourWheelKid
»speedtest.net/result/2472037054.png

190 meg down on ultimate, that beats the 300 baud modem on compuserve. Nice upgrade

reply to cmos100
Holy!!!

I really hope SoCal gets those speed upgrades!

reply to FourWheelKid
Ya. They brought the price up way too high to get to that tier. Everything jumps up 5-10 bucks and then out of nowhere doubles when it comes to that one. That just brings me back to my comparison between the TVs lol. They waive something above your head to gain your interest and then when you look the other way they ramrod your rear with a giant flagpole and laught about it. Meanwhile they make a *killing* on profit.

reply to cmos100

Yeah, those were the days. I had an old Atari 400 and a acoustically coupled modem. I spent a fortune in those days on computers.

reply to Beezel
I still have my 16K CoCo.

reply to jh20001
You should upgrade to the 8x4. I upgraded from the SB6121 to the SB6141. Cox in Las Vegas utilizes 8 channels downstream and 2 channels upstream.

reply to jayde
it should have been 8 down before if you had a good enough signal Omaha added upstream bonding during the outage and my SB modem lists the channels

1 Locked QAM256 56 855000000 Hz
2 Locked QAM256 53 837000000 Hz
3 Locked QAM256 54 843000000 Hz
4 Locked QAM256 55 849000000 Hz
5 Locked QAM256 57 861000000 Hz
6 Locked QAM256 58 867000000 Hz
7 Locked QAM256 59 873000000 Hz
8 Locked QAM256 60 879000000 Hz

Upstream Bonded Channels
Channel Lock Status US Channel Type Channel ID Symbol Rate Frequency Power
1 Locked TDMA and ATDMA 3 2560 Ksym/sec 28500000 Hz
2 Locked TDMA and ATDMA 2 2560 Ksym/sec 25200000 Hz
3 Locked TDMA and ATDMA 4 2560 Ksym/sec 31800000 Hz
4 Locked TDMA and ATDMA 5 2560 Ksym/sec 35100000 Hz

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reply to bryant313
I think I've got you all beat...

I started being "online" around 1977 or so using what was the Dow Jones News and Information Retrieval Service (what a mouthful that was) at a lowly pithy "oh god I can type 10x faster than this" 50 baud - it was so slow that more often than not my typing would cause a buffer overflow since the machine I was on just couldn't handle more than about 16 characters a second.

I finally did get a 300 baud modem in either late 1978 or early 1979, damned thing cost me like $1300 (a whole summer of grass cutting/yardwork savings) and my Dad thought I was freakin' insane for doing it but, as an electrical engineer himself, he understood (even in the 1970s) where technology was headed and he never put the brakes on my learning, thankfully.

Around the time the Commodore 64 appeared (I never owned a VIC-20, actually) I got one and the original C64 300 baud modem for it and was using VIDTEX and was delighted to make a pretty wicked discovery in early 1983: there were some PEEK and POKE commands you could use (mainly POKE to change registers) that one could issue that "overclocked" the 300 baud modem - I'm not joking, I'm totally serious here - to a whopping 450 baud which was a full 50% increase in speed in both directions, and it actually worked surprisingly well.

And the biggest benefit? In those days you paid by the minute to be connected: 300 baud connections were $.10 a minute ($6 an hour) and if you were extremely wealthy and had a 1200 baud modem (I thought my 300 baud from 1979 was expensive, geez, the 1200's were selling for nearly $2500 from USRobotics and Hayes), so it was rather awesome to discover that CompuServe's modems that I was dialing into were picking me up at the faster 450 baud speed but they were recognizing me as 300 baud...

And as tough as it might be to believe, that 50% "speed boost" actually was incredibly noticeable: instead of a line of text appearing onscreen as the cursor moved across letter by letter, the entire line would just sort of "blink" into view, full lines at a time. I was the only person in the US - for some period of time - accessing CompuServe at 450 baud, I even verified my connection speed with one of their original SysOps that I was friends with and he was amazed that the "overclocking" thing actually worked.

Oh those were the fun times, most "kids" nowadays have no idea just how far we've come and they take all this for granted, sadly. Had a Tandy Model 100 and the acoustic coupler modem for a long time as well, I kinda miss that thing... Did the Amiga thing as well, best personal computers ever made even to this day (and still the only true hardware-based multitasking PCs). Never got into Apple hardware, however, and I still don't.

My original CompuServe ID was 70010,410 - I was one of the original first 500 members when the service went live so long ago.

Anyway... sorry about the trip down Memory Lane but all the talk of baud rates just got me all nostalgic.

I'm using Preferred nowadays here in Vegas so a speed bump would be nice but, I'm not holding out for miracles, especially since they're going to bump the prices again. Was just reading this:

»www.techdirt.com/articles/201301···on.shtml

and wondering just how much the prices will continue to rise...