[TriLUG] OT: Check your cable modems! TW wont tell you to tradeup.

[Brian Henning]

I wasn't getting much over 3.5 mbit with the older modem (at the time,
standard was 5mbit).  I have no idea what its model number was, but I
figure all the beige ones with one blue button and internal PSU (i.e. no
wall wart, just an AC cable) are the same...

Lately I suspect I'm not getting near my 10mbit Turbo either...  Most of
my home networking is 802.11g; I remember hearing some time ago that a
wireless connection will negatively impact things like speed tests...is
that true?  Should I plug straight into the switch on the gateway side
of my WLAN to run a speed test?

Cheers,
~B

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-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Heath Roberts
Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 10:23 AM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] OT: Check your cable modems! TW wont tell you to
tradeup.

<snip>

I'm pretty sure TW is using DOCSIS 2.0 in Raleigh/Durham, and both the
SB4000 and SB5101 are DOCSIS 1.1/2.0 modems. The 4000 should be good to
about 11Mb/s and the 5101 should go to ~22Mb/s.

What sorts of speeds were you seeing before & after? I have 'standard'
roadrunner service, which Time-Warner advertises as 7M down & 384K up. I
occasionally turn shaping off and do a speed test, and get pretty much
exactly 7/384. This is with an eight-year-old modem--I don't know the
exact
model number, but it's largish and beige, and I'm pretty sure it's an
SB4000
variant.

-- 
Heath Roberts
htroberts at gmail.com
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