Charter Internet - Replacing The Rented Cable Modem

[little_scrapper]

You are quite right my good man! Thank you very much.

After reading this article I can see that I have green LED's being displayed and hence I'm not getting any channel bonding so there's no way I'm on DOCSIS 3.0 at all. How can I achieve channel bonding?

http://blog.jseaber.com/2010/08/21/c...sb6120-review/

The LED's change? I just plugged it in and called comcast and had my router activated and my speed basically doubled. Are you saying I need to read my book and look at the lighty blinky thingies?

[trentlad]

So a few weeks on and it looks like my speed rates are pretty random. I found a way to check the speed at the same server as before and I'm currently getting the same speed as DOCSIS 2.0. I'm finding that the connection either drops below the speeds I had with DOCSIS 2.0 or at the same but never substantially exceeding.



Compare that too...

For instance, this is an example of the speeds I'm getting right now and they are pretty impressive.

[stangracin3]

yes but look at the ping, you have 1/3 the latency which will help plenty.

[trentlad]

Indeed, very true.

[Kurz]

Dude... you really should do the tests at the same time of the day.
You are doing a speed test at prime :banana::banana::banana::banana: watching time.

[trentlad]

Still going strong.

[trentlad]

Conclusion:

I've had more consistency with connection speed on the previous standard modems, the upgrade has seen literally zero improvement and if anything it's a little slower and it's definitely not worth the cash to get the next gen tech just yet.

Obviously, my service provider may b e at fault but upon asking their tech support they claimed to be fully supporting DOCSIS 3.0 and I am definitely running on their DOCSIS 3.0 connection. So it's unclear if the technology isn't worth it (as in, this generation may get skipped over) or if my service provider isn't getting the most out of this tech since my internet experience is exactly the same as when I used a DOCSIS 2.0 modem.