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tiger72
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join:2001-03-28
Saint Louis, MO

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Re: Glad not ready til 2015

you're right. Just terrible logic.

palmer73
@comcast.net

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No terrible logic if you are trying to get your money's worth out of a modem you possibly just bought.. think about it.. then the cable company announces the next day that they are upgrading and for whatever reason your current modem doesn't work or won't give you the speeds, then you have to go out and spend another 60-100.. so his logic seems right on point to me if you look at it from a spending point of view.

lkviewguy
join:2004-02-13
Chicago, IL

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maybe you should pay more attention to this site and other so that you aren't suddenly surprised when new speeds come come out. Why should everyone have to suffer cause someone else is too cheap to buy a new modem for 100 bucks. Besides they are backwards compatible, enjoy your modem as long as you want, imma enjoy mine with the new speeds

DAOWAce
join:2006-10-25
Flanders, NJ

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Who buys cable modems? Looks like someone needs to question their choice of ISP instead of blame technology for improving.

2015 is way too far away; I don't see how Cable is going to keep up with Fiber if they're going to be that slow with improving specifications.

FFH5
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join:2002-03-03
Tavistock NJ

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said by DAOWAce:

Who buys cable modems? Looks like someone needs to question their choice of ISP instead of blame technology for improving.

People buy cable modems when the monthly rental can be offset in 12 months or so. And as far as choosing an ISP, most have a choice of cable(at 50/10 mbps) or Dsl(at 3/1 mbps). An easy choice, especially when the price differential is small.

tiger72
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said by palmer73 :

No terrible logic if you are trying to get your money's worth out of a modem you possibly just bought.. think about it.. then the cable company announces the next day that they are upgrading and for whatever reason your current modem doesn't work or won't give you the speeds, then you have to go out and spend another 60-100.. so his logic seems right on point to me if you look at it from a spending point of view.

His logic is terrible - this isn't rocket-science.

It's unlikely he's maxing out his cable modem as it is. Upgrading their end of the network doesn't mean the old consumer-end technology is obsolete. If anything the old modem will finally be more likely to max out thanks to updated infrastructure it'll connect to.

It's like comparing a Ferrari (docsis 3.1) and a Honda (Docsis 3.0). In the United States neither car can perform at their maximum since our infrastructure (roads) has speed limits and congestion. The Ferrari can go 190mph, and the Honda can go 120mph, but on our infrastructure they're only gonna go 70-80mph.

If you upgrade the infrastructure to allow for higher speed limits, BOTH cars benefit since NEITHER car was hitting their limits before anyways.

The same goes for Docsis 3.0->3.1. If you upgrade the infrastructure to support higher capacity, then all users benefit - even those without the latest-and-greatest.