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Percival P. Cassidy
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Mon Oct 10, 2005 1:31 am Post subject:
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I have a Motorola SB4100 that I own and brought with me from NY (where I
had 10mbps service with Optimum Online) to W. Michigan (where I have
3mbps service with Charter Pipeline).
I see that a later Surfboard (SB5120, IIRC) is now on sale at a very low
price.
Would there be any advantage in upgrading?
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Warren
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Mon Oct 10, 2005 3:24 am Post subject:
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Percival P. Cassidy wrote:
| Quote: | I have a Motorola SB4100 that I own and brought with me from NY (where I
had 10mbps service with Optimum Online) to W. Michigan (where I have 3mbps
service with Charter Pipeline).
I see that a later Surfboard (SB5120, IIRC) is now on sale at a very low
price.
Would there be any advantage in upgrading?
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To the retailer, yes. To you, no.
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Alex Evonosky
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Mon Oct 10, 2005 5:46 am Post subject:
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on the contrary;
The SB51xx series have better hardware to support BVI, Voice, DOCSIS1.1
QoS.. Some MSO's are forcing a tighter security measure and may require
the additional hardware functionality of the later hardware; hence the
reason they lease their units. |
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Warren
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Mon Oct 10, 2005 6:26 am Post subject:
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Alex Evonosky wrote:
| Quote: | The SB51xx series have better hardware to support BVI, Voice, DOCSIS1.1
QoS.. Some MSO's are forcing a tighter security measure and may require
the additional hardware functionality of the later hardware; hence the
reason they lease their units.
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And some day, those will be great reasons to update. But there's no reason
to replace a working modem today.
By the time the day comes that there will be any benefit received from
updating, the SB51xx may already be obsolete as well. Spending money now to
replace the SB4100, which isn't yet obsolete, and is still working, is just
a waste of money.
Now if you were talking about an SB3100 or SB2100, or an SB4100 that was
damaged, the story would be different. But there's no need to replace a
working modem that's not yet obsolete with a newer modem if the features of
the newer modem do not yet offer any benefit.
Buying technology products in advance of their need simply doesn't pay for
the consumer.
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Warren H.
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Disclaimer: My views reflect those of myself, and not my
employer, my friends, nor (as she often tells me) my wife.
Any resemblance to the views of anybody living or dead is
coincidental. No animals were hurt in the writing of this
response -- unless you count my dog who desperately wants
to go outside now.
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http://www.holzemville.com/mall/simpsons |
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riggor99999
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Mon Oct 10, 2005 2:49 pm Post subject:
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The only problem I found is that the SB4100 would not do the new Comcast
speeds - 6 mbps - Silver , or 8 mbps - Gold. It was topping out at 5 mbps.
Some people / areas have this working, where other people / other areas
could not. This has been discussed / documented in the Comcast Forums (in
the www.comcast.net)
"Percival P. Cassidy" <Nobody@NotMyISP.net> wrote in message
news:D6f2f.3461$3n2.1414@fe02.lga...
| Quote: | I have a Motorola SB4100 that I own and brought with me from NY (where I
had 10mbps service with Optimum Online) to W. Michigan (where I have 3mbps
service with Charter Pipeline).
I see that a later Surfboard (SB5120, IIRC) is now on sale at a very low
price.
Would there be any advantage in upgrading?
Perce |
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Mon Oct 10, 2005 10:47 pm Post subject:
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On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 05:49:40 -0400, "riggor99999"
<riggor99999@yahoo.com> wrote:
| Quote: | The only problem I found is that the SB4100 would not do the new Comcast
speeds - 6 mbps - Silver , or 8 mbps - Gold. It was topping out at 5 mbps.
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That may be so, but I don't think that this is a factor for the
original poster as he was using the same modem and getting 10 mbps. |
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riggor99999
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Tue Oct 11, 2005 3:59 am Post subject:
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<gray.wizard@moria.mines> wrote in message
news:b7alk19evpkmrpoujiu1p8904en4hn1pdh@4ax.com...
| Quote: | On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 05:49:40 -0400, "riggor99999"
riggor99999@yahoo.com> wrote:
The only problem I found is that the SB4100 would not do the new Comcast
speeds - 6 mbps - Silver , or 8 mbps - Gold. It was topping out at 5
mbps.
That may be so, but I don't think that this is a factor for the
original poster as he was using the same modem and getting 10 mbps.
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Understood - my point was that the modem may perform differently with a
different ISP / network ... |
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Wed Oct 12, 2005 2:35 am Post subject:
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On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 18:59:00 -0400, "riggor99999"
<riggor99999@yahoo.com> wrote:
[quote]Understood - my point was that the modem may perform differently with a
different ISP / network ...
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What you say is very true...and sorry I missed your intended point. |
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