[Cialug] new cable modem advice

[Barry Von Ahsen]

posting with the new 5100.  so far, so good, and it automatically 
registered with Mediacom, no phone call necessary.


-barry


Jerry Weida wrote:
> Try to avoid picking up a Moto 4220 (they should all have been
> recalled by now I hope).  The Moto SB5100 is a pretty good modem. 
> There are some things about Motorola that don't affect people right
> now, but may in the future.
> 
> They have really poor DOCSIS support.  They bend the rules as much a
> they can and in the "taking full advantage of bandwidth given"
> category, it really pays off.  The Moto's seem to have the best
> throughput of any of the cable modems that I've tested.
> 
> However, these "minor deviations" from the DOCSIS 1.1 and PacketCable
> 1.0 specs have cost us some man hours in trying to get their modems
> working with VoIP.  There are workarounds that we can do, but they
> don't always seem stable.
> 
> Also, their deviation from the DOCSIS 1.1 spec caused a bit of a
> problem we someone learned that the bridge between the ethernet port
> and the cable RF side wasn't disabled during the initial boot process.
>  This combined with the "deviation" that a modem isn't suppose to
> accept a download of configuration from the ethernet side caused it so
> that the Motorola's could be "hacked" very easily and we ended up
> suspending several peoples accounts and dropping them due to constant
> violations.  Of course, this point probably won't sway you away from
> the brand :)  But it does illustrate Motorola's abillity to pass the
> spec tests, but not particularly adhere to the specs.
> 
> Just my $.02
> 
> 
> On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 08:18:44 -0600, Barry Von Ahsen <barry@vonahsen.com> wrote:
> 
>>Stephen Hawkins wrote:
>>
>>>Barry,
>>>
>>>On Thursday 17 March 2005 14:59, Barry Von Ahsen wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>as I was complaining about last night, I'm about to ditch my P.O.S. RCA
>>>>cable modem, and I'm soliciting advice for it's replacement.  From what
>>>>I can google, the Motorola surf board 5100 seems pretty good.
>>>
>>>
>>>After having a wearying number of arguments with the tech support folks at my
>>>current ISP, and several others in the past. Arguments over things that
>>>should have been detected by them, and fixed before I ever called, I decided
>>>that I would pay the 3 bucks a month and use their Cable Modem no matter what
>>>kind it was.
>>>
>>>I did this because it seemed to me that every time I called my ISP to let them
>>>know that they had a problem, they told me:
>>>
>>>A. Reinstall Windows even though I don't use Windows.
>>>B. You have a bad cable modem.
>>>
>>>Where upon I could then tell them, "No, it is your cable modem".  It is
>>>amazing, right after I point this out, magically the cable modem starts
>>>working, and is no longer the culprit.  It has saved me endless arguments.
>>>
>>
>>I did have that thought, since I called once and got some grief about
>>having a router that didn't = {linksys|dlink|microsoft}.  I checked my
>>Dad's last night and it's a Moto 4200 (1 rev back), so I may go with the
>>official, if it won't take 3 weeks to get it
>>
>>-barry
>>
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