[Cialug] Choosing a cable modem

[Don Ellis]

I thought about buying my own modem, but Charter in St Louis offered their
Cisco DOCSIS 3 at no extra charge. When I installed it, several streaming
channels I'd been having trouble with suddenly started working smoothly,
even though the nominal downlink speed didn't change. Yes, I'm probably
renting it, but they hide the rental fee by not giving a discount for
bringing your own. Haven't tested speed since last IP change, though I
think I was getting a solid 30Mbps before.

--Don Ellis


On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Scott Yates <Scott at yatesframe.com> wrote:

> The Motorola SB6141 is two times faster than the older Motorola SB6121.
> This is because Motorola SB6141’s downstream throughput is 320 Mbps as it
> is capable of bonding up to eight channels while the Motorola SB6121 is 160
> Mbps because it can bond up to only four channels.
>
>
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> On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:
>
> > DOCSIS 3.0 is the new black, I guess. I'm thinking about buying my own
> > modem so I don't have to pay the $5 monthly rental.
> >
> > It seems that the Motorola are popular, and I've noticed that they have
> > two different DOCSIS 3.0 modems (excluding those with built in wifi).
> >
> > Here in the DSM area, is there any practical difference between the
> sb6121
> > and the sb6141?
> >
> > Is there another I should be considering? For the record, I'm not going
> to
> > pay for the higher tier speeds for some time. Also, I don't want to get
> > built in wifi because I want to have more control over configuration.
> >
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