[TriLUG] TWC Cable Modem requirement for +30Mbps

[Cristóbal Palmer]

On Thursday, July 19, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Ron Kelley wrote:
> Thanks everyone. I picked up my new modem this morning and it is working great so far. I got the Motorola SBG6580 modem

Well, this is moot now, but:

http://www.motorola.com/staticfiles/Support/US-EN/Home-and-Office/Cable-Modems-and-Gateways/SB5101U-Series-SURFboard-Cable-Modems/Documents/Static-Files/SB5101_datasheet_706.pdf

Motorola says your old modem is "Euro-DOCSIS 2.0 compliant" and...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOCSIS#Speed_tables

WP reports that "EuroDOCSIS 2.0" caps out at 50 Mbit/s.

So you didn't need to replace the modem if your only concern was speed.

Cheers,
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Cristóbal Palmer
cmpalmer.org