 stevennbOk, But, Thats The Last Straw.Premium
join:2001-05-08
Wayne, NJ | OOL sent me a Arris modem...why? I come home from work and see at my door a box from OOL. I open it up and it's Arris touchstone 3.0 Modem. I currently have a Motorola SB6120 which is working fine. I did contact OOL earlier in the week to ask about my promotion that's ending. Should I contact them and have them send out a pre paid label (unless it's already in the box) or do nothing?
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| "The Motorola SURFboard Cable Modem (SB6120) is DOCSIS and Euro-DOCSIS 3.0 certified. It introduces channel bonding of up to 4 downstream channels"
The Arris supports more than 4 downstream channels, so your modem is obsolete. |
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 mbernsteBoostedPremium,MVM
join:2001-06-30
Piscataway, NJ | reply to stevennb
It would be nice if they did that to replace my SBV 5120. |
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| said by mbernste:It would be nice if they did that to replace my SBV 5120.
Maybe if you ask????  |
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risk
join:2008-01-01
Milford, CT | reply to stevennb
I received an Arris via UPS to replace my SBV5120. Inside the box there was a prepaid label and a note saying the old modem must be returned within 30 days. I was going to the walk-in center to replace my TV boxes anyway so I returned it then. |
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275 Centennial Ave
Piscataway, NJ 08854
Mon,Wed,Fri: 8am - 6pm
Tues,Thu: 8am - 8pm
Sat: 9am - 5pm |
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We have the base service 15/2 (20/2) here at work. We have an old Docs 2.1 modem they sent us sitting in a box and a slightly less old Docs 2.1 modem / router we bought online years ago.
I wonder if they will send us a Arris Docis 3.0 too?
We are considering upgrading to 50/8 anyway. |
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| Hopefully they are planning some upgrades soon as we've been pushed to 8 downstream channels so far!
Cox seems to on a 150Mbps tier now too and Time Warner pushed theirs to 100Mbps (to compete with Google Fiber). Hopefully OOL wants to push a 150/200Mbps tier as well |
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| said by SHoTTa35 :Hopefully they are planning some upgrades soon as we've been pushed to 8 downstream channels so far!
Cox seems to on a 150Mbps tier now too and Time Warner pushed theirs to 100Mbps (to compete with Google Fiber). Hopefully OOL wants to push a 150/200Mbps tier as well
well TWC also has a 75Mbps tier out in the wild in Dallas to compete with Uverse and get ahead of them on speed offerings but the 100Mbps tier for TWC is only limited to the Kansas City KS/MO metro area right now. |
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I hope they introduce upload channel bonding soon .Just upgraded to boost plus from the 15/2 tier. They shipped me a new modem.
I have 8 channels downstream bonded and get 59mbps down but only 3mbps up. I have great signal levels and 0 to 10ms pings . Upload on my node is really saturated. |
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mbernsteBoostedPremium,MVM
join:2001-06-30
Piscataway, NJ | reply to aannoonn
I know where my local Cablevision office is, don't insult me. |
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I have a SBV5120 at home and it seems fine. I'm getting full speeds. I guess I'll wait until they swap it out or I run into an issue that requires me to get a new modem. Otherwise, seems like a waste of time to worry about. |
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Re: OOL sent me a Arris modem...why? said by stevennb:I come home from work and see at my door a box from OOL. I open it up and it's Arris touchstone 3.0 Modem. I currently have a Motorola SB6120 which is working fine. I did contact OOL earlier in the week to ask about my promotion that's ending. Should I contact them and have them send out a pre paid label (unless it's already in the box) or do nothing?
Weird - it doesn't make any business sense (4-channel modems are good enough - as 8 channels = 2 bonding groups = enables device balancing the way they balance D2.0 single-channel modems across all 8 downsteams now).
They must have detected a significant problem with your modem, if it prompted them to replace it this way. Or do you have a DOCSIS1.0 modem on your account that you forgot about , or THEY think you have it, but don't? Call to find out. |
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