CenturyLink → Re: Actiontec C3000A Modem IPv6 / IPv4 Tests - CenturyLink & VPN

It's it's ugly and it works, it ain't ugly

its the best looking modem yet in my opinion, just wish ctl would make external antennas on the dual band gateways. the 1900 has by far the best range.

Truthfully... I wish my Linksys and Netgear routers had built-in antennas, like the C3000A. I get tired of looking at them.

I put my Actiontec dual-band gateway/modem down at one end of the house (room closest to the CL NID box) - a Netgear dual-band router (repeater mode) in the middle of the house - and a Linksys dual-band router (bridge mode) at the opposite end of the house.

It's overkill on the 2.4 GHz band, but the 5.0 GHz band needs a lot of help bending around the corners. 5.0 GHz signals don't go through walls very well, if at all, regardless of whatever 'beaming rabbit-ear' razzmatazz their marketing departments have come up with.

Looks like you might be running a similar setup in your house, judging by the devices you've listed in your profile.

VinDSL, you are correct with the cooling. Known as Passive Cooling, and the way it's designed is quite ingenious.

Rather heat being radiated and pinwheeled from the pin-hole design like the Zyxel modem... this is a model that passively generates heat, and causes a basic convection effect, displacing the cold in there with hot, forcing the air to rise with time. Once the modem gets warm enough, the process begins to cool itself rather efficiently.

If actiontec wanted to go the extra mile, they could put in a small, low-rpm fan at the bottom to actively flow the cool air into the device.

Note that there is no need to pop the cover of electronic devices to get a look inside. All electronic devices in the USA that may intentionally emit RF have to be tested by an approved lab and approved by the FCC. The FCC reports include high quality pictures of every aspect of the device, inside and out. Simply get the FCC ID from somewhere on the device and/or packaging and go to »fccid.io/

not sure how i would attach to the serial header through the cover though. or how telnet /ssh would allow one to interrupt the boot loader.1



im a ham i was aware of the fcc db/site but i also follow the EEV blog and the moto there is "DONT TURN IT ON, TAKE IT APART!"

5v serial btw