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On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 10:33, Kevin wrote:=20
> On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 11:13, Mark Phillips wrote:
> > I talked to Cox the weekend about buying a cable modem and returning th=
e
> > one I am renting. The tech recommended Motorola and Toshiba. I have had
> > a Toshiba modem (PCX1100 - now out of date) for a couple of years of
> > continuous service and no problems. However, I went to Best Buy and
> > found the new Toshiba is $79 and the "same" Motorola unit was $59.00
> > after a $20 rebate.=20
> >=20
> > The only requirement from cox is that the modem must be DOCSIS 1.1
> > compliant. I heard a rumor that cox will be upgrading their modems to
> > DOCSIS 2.0 in about 6 months. Both the Toshiba and Motorola modems are
> > DOCSIS 2.0 compliant.=20
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> For whatever it's worth, I had to return a Motorola cable modem because
> I could not get it to negotiate an upstream speed higher than about
> 30Kbps on COX residential high-speed internet service.  Downstream
> speeds were normal.
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So the upstream cap is higher than 256 kilobits per second? I guess I
have a call to make, if this is true. I just thought that 256Kbps was at
least close to a reasonable upstream rate for residential, not to
mention I could not find a single word about "speed" (in actual numbers)
on their website.
Thanks.

P.S. My downstream speeds are fine and sometimes go above 3Mbps for
about a minute.



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Bryce C <Plug@BryceCo.Net>

CoBryce Communications

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