I just installed a Motorola model SB6120<div>DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem. I called Comcast,</div><div>supplied the model, customer S/N, and the </div><div>MAC address. Later I power cycled the </div><div>router, and was up and going. The whole</div>
<div>thing took 15 minutes, including all my</div><div>running back and forth between the phone</div><div>and the setup.</div><div><br></div><div>Later, a "return kit" will arrive to send the old</div><div>unit back - one I've rented for 7 years.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The rental fee went from $3 a month to $5,</div><div>and shortly thereafter, to $7, for same old </div><div>modem. The new on cost about $84 from</div><div>Amazon. At the $7 a month rate, the payback</div>
<div>time is a year, and I have an up to date modem.</div><div>I did a quick check, and it's faster too. I'll</div><div>do some more tests during lighter traffic times</div><div>of the day, but already I'm getting faster </div>
<div>bit rates than ever before.</div><div><br></div><div> -- Bob</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Dave Brondsema <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave@brondsema.net">dave@brondsema.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On 05/19/2011 01:18 AM, Bob Kline wrote:<br>
> Curious. I have the 16 Mbps residential<br>
> service, and the upstream rate is about<br>
</div>> 3.5 Mbps up, based on <a href="http://speedtest.net" target="_blank">speedtest.net</a> <<a href="http://speedtest.net" target="_blank">http://speedtest.net</a>>.<br>
<div class="im">><br>
> I'd almost think an improvement of 10X<br>
> is almost some kind of mistake on Comcast's<br>
> part - it's hard to understand an improvement<br>
> that big. You're in West MI?<br>
<br>
</div>Yep<br>
<div class="im"><br>
><br>
> Re the modem, I currently have a DOCSIS 2.0<br>
> cable modem owned by Comcast. What was<br>
> involved in setting yours up?<br>
<br>
</div>My prior modem was owned also (not rented). I called them and told them<br>
I had a new cable modem. I gave them the model & mac address. It's<br>
possible they also optimized something on their end at that time also<br>
which helped the speeds.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
><br>
> -- Bob<br>
><br>
><br>
> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 12:04 AM, Dave Brondsema <<a href="mailto:dave@brondsema.net">dave@brondsema.net</a><br>
</div><div class="im">> <mailto:<a href="mailto:dave@brondsema.net">dave@brondsema.net</a>>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> After upgrading my cable modem [1] I consistently get 9-10 Mbps upload<br>
> speed with comcast residential (according to <a href="http://speedtest.net" target="_blank">speedtest.net</a><br>
</div>> <<a href="http://speedtest.net" target="_blank">http://speedtest.net</a>>). It was<br>
<div class="im">> only ~1 Mbps before that. The download speed increased a little bit too<br>
> - but not nearly so significantly.<br>
><br>
> [1] upgraded to Motorola SB6120 SurfBoard<br>
> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001UI2FPE" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001UI2FPE</a><br>
><br>
> On 05/18/2011 09:43 PM, Brad Becker wrote:<br>
> > Running a web server favors more upstream bandwidth, so why<br>
> > would download bandwidth be all that important when my guess is 2 Mbps<br>
> > is around the best upstream anyone can get around here short of<br>
> > commercial/business grade. Frankly I'd gladly give back 1/2 my<br>
> download<br>
> > bandwidth (most of it wasted) for 1 Mbps more on the upside. Few<br>
> > servers can dish out the download bandwidth capability most people<br>
> have,<br>
> > but then again providers know this as their own form of throttling.<br>
> ><br>
> > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Michael Mol <<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a><br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a>><br>
</div><div class="im">> > <mailto:<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a>>>> wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> > It'll really depend on if you're doing things like running a web<br>
> > server, if you're making your own files available to yourself from<br>
> > elsewhere (and where a service like DropBox is less<br>
> appropriate), etc.<br>
> ><br>
> > For example, I might run <a href="http://rosettacode.org" target="_blank">rosettacode.org</a><br>
</div>> <<a href="http://rosettacode.org" target="_blank">http://rosettacode.org</a>> <<a href="http://rosettacode.org" target="_blank">http://rosettacode.org</a>><br>
<div class="im">> > from home if I had a<br>
> > reasonable Internet connection for it. It'd be nice to not<br>
> need to pay<br>
> > twice as much per month just to have twice as much RAM<br>
> available to<br>
> > me.<br>
> ><br>
> > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Jonathan Jesse<br>
> <<a href="mailto:jjesse@gmail.com">jjesse@gmail.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:jjesse@gmail.com">jjesse@gmail.com</a>><br>
</div><div class="im">> > <mailto:<a href="mailto:jjesse@gmail.com">jjesse@gmail.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:jjesse@gmail.com">jjesse@gmail.com</a>>>> wrote:<br>
> > > Perhaps a silly question but why the need for such high<br>
> bandwidth?<br>
> > I am a uverse customer with middle of the road level of Internet<br>
> > connection and I don't notcie the lag getting my workmdone from<br>
> > home, watching the occasional video on vimeo or YouTube. Netflix<br>
> > runs fine as well for me.... Trying justify the cost of increased<br>
> > bandwidth when I mostly do some streaming, lots of email and web<br>
> > browsing and chatting on irc<br>
> > ><br>
> > ><br>
> > > Sent from my iPad<br>
> > ><br>
> > > On May 18, 2011, at 5:08 PM, Adam Tauno Williams<br>
> > <<a href="mailto:awilliam@whitemice.org">awilliam@whitemice.org</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:awilliam@whitemice.org">awilliam@whitemice.org</a>><br>
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> > ><br>
> > >> On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 16:29 -0400, Dan Pilcheck wrote:<br>
> > >>>>> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Matthew Seeley<br>
> > <<a href="mailto:matthew@threadlight.com">matthew@threadlight.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:matthew@threadlight.com">matthew@threadlight.com</a>><br>
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<div><div></div><div class="h5">> > >>>>> wrote:<br>
> > >>>>>> I have the 24m Uverse service in Jenison.<br>
> > >>>>>> At first, it was excellent. Got 22m down on off hours, and<br>
> > 18m down on<br>
> > >>>>>> peak times. Was that way for the first two - three months.<br>
> > >>>>>> Then, AT&T went door-to-door and signed up everyone in the<br>
> > apartment<br>
> > >>>>>> complex.<br>
> > >>>>>> Now I only get 10m down on peak times, and 14m down on off<br>
> > hours. (Even<br>
> > >>>>>> when paying for the '24m' plan though)<br>
> > >>> Bob (Et al.), Sorry if I'm taking this to far off topic<br>
> for the<br>
> > thread;<br>
> > >>> What about Comcast Business at the home?<br>
> > >>> IIRC its been touched on here, but I couldn't dig up anything<br>
> > relevant.<br>
> > >><br>
> > >> I had AT&T business class DSL to my home for a long time (this<br>
> > includes<br>
> > >> static IPs, a router, etc...). Performance was very good.<br>
> > >><br>
> > >> But U-verse (which also includes TV) and a Linode is actually<br>
> > cheaper.<br>
> > >> You still get an always-on static IP hosts (the Linode)<br>
> that isn't on<br>
> > >> your power bill - and you can run server's without<br>
> violating your<br>
> > >> EULA.<br>
> > >><br>
> > >> It is also quite handy to OpenVPN from<br>
> > whatever-crappy-network-I'm-on to<br>
> > >> the Linode.<br>
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