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Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by daniel, Sep 3, 2009.

  1. daniel

    daniel Cat Lovers Against the Bomb

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    I just replaced my Motorola Surfboard SB4100 with a Motorola Surfboard SB6120.

    My download speed from speedtest.net went from 6.24 Mbps to 28.65 Mbps, and my upload speed went from 1.03 Mbps to 8.54 Mbps!!! I had done the test a few times in the past and a few times over the past couple of days, so the "before" number was not a fluke.

    I'm actually paying Comcast for 12 Mbps download, and I think 2 Mbps upload, but I'm not sure of the upload I'm supposed to get.
     
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  2. jay_man2

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    That's a nice improvement. Switching to FiOS last December was my best improvement. :p
     
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    Did you buy SB6120 yourself?
     
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    I had a similar experience about a year and a half ago when we moved to a new house. The phone company furnished the modem, our local cable can't even provide TV :mad:. Anyway the old Cisco modem wouldn't even link at the new house, so the phone guy comes out, looks at the modem, goes :eek:, said "I'll be right back" and came back with a Seimans unit, instant link and about triple the speed and the new unit is with a 4 port switch and 802.11G access point. It seems the old Cisco unit was like rev. 1.0 for DSL modems.
     
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    Daniel, Daniel, Daniel. Maybe someday you'll transcend this need of yours to define yourself by your material possessions.
     
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  6. daniel

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    Yep. From Amazon.

    :confused: :confused: :confused:

    Why, when I praise a gadget, do you insist that I am defining myself by my possessions? I like gadgets. They are cool. And when I find a great one, I let others know, in case they might be considering it.

    I think I am less defined by my possessions than most of the people around me. I define myself by the things I've done, and the things I do. I don't think you know me well enough to make accusations like the above.

    Edited to remove the link because even after I unchecked "embed media" and "parse links" PriusChat insisted on embedding a picture from Amazon.
     
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    I had a similar experience when Shaw upgraded my Terryon modem to the newer Motorola cable modem. Day and night difference
     
    #7 jayman, Sep 4, 2009
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    TheForce Stop War! Lets Rave! Make Love!

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    I wish I could get that kind of speed just by upgrading my cable modem. Sadly I'm stuck on a 7/768 plan and the power boost for about $10 more is 15/1. Not really worth it for what I do. %90 of the time I cant download that fast from the servers anyway. I would love to have at least a 10Mb upload speed every once in a while.
     
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