hello again - and a question about Rogers
James Knott
james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Tue Aug 31 21:25:24 UTC 2004
Peter L. Peres wrote:
>
> On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, James Knott wrote:
>
>> Matt Cahill wrote:
>>
>>> Monday, August 30, 2004, 3:10:03 PM, you wrote:
>>>
>>> KC> What modem do you have? I had no problems with my Rogers
>>> connection at
>>> KC> first. After several months I started having problems. It turned out
>>> KC> that it was a bad modem (I had a Terayon TJ615 modem). It was
>>> replaced
>>> KC> with a SurfBoard 5100 and life is good again.
>>>
>>> Interesting. What was the issue with the Tarayon? I have one, but
>>> I'm pretty sure it's working OK. Did your old Terayon pretend to
>>> work fine by any chance?
>>>
>>
>> I had a Tarayon for about 4 years, until I bought my own Motorola
>> SB5100 modem. My connection is *MUCH* faster now.
>
>
> Really ? That's interesting. I see 100k real speed on a terayon cable
> modem (128 k connection). How much faster can one go ? Considering all
> the dumb arp traffic on the cable, I'd say you can't go faster. Of
> course I don't know about Rogers. Maybe they have more switches. It
> would be interesting to know how much speed one can gain by switching
> modems ?
I assume you're got the "Lite" version. In that case, no you won't see
much more than 100 Kb/s. When you buy your own modem, you get the
"Extreme" service, which runs at 5 Mb/s.
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