Cable modems.............

[yacob.naif 10+ year member]

How many of you guys own your own cable modem?

The idea had never even crossed my mind, myself, but i just moved back to akron, so i had the opportunity to get discounted roadrunner through the university, but had to purchase my own hardware (no rentals)

but i had never even thought about the effect on speed the actual MODEM can have... i'm here to tell you there are options out there beyond the outdated rental modem sitting on your desk! //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/eek.gif.771b7a90cf45cabdc554ff1121c21c4a.gif

For $79 i got a linksys cable modem that's a docsis 2.0 certified cable modem with a max linespeed of 50 odd Mb/s, a 4 port router, and a wireless-g hub all in one box, and the difference is ASTOUNDING!

I had a motorola SBG900 modem from warner, which is basically a SB5100 with a built in wireless hub in it, and the linksys is a LOT better so far

the motorola router would constantly crash the network if i had too many connections open at a time, and didn't do a very good job of allocating bandwidth to different tasks..... eg.; if i started one download, it may be going, say, 300kB/s, but then if i started another, the first would STAY at 300kB/s, and the second would go really slow until the first had finished

the linksys hasn't crashed once, and is really good about allocating bandwidth equally, while keeping my maximum bandwidth filled at all times

best example i can think of, is i can have morpheus running @ 600kB/s, and if i open mozilla at the same time, rather than pages taking years to open, or crashing my computer, the router actually throttles morpheus, so i can get adequate bandwidth for websurfing, and then automatically speeds morpheus back up once i'm done loading a page, etc., but my total network speed is 4.9-5.1mb/s at all times, so i'm always taking full advantage of my connection

i just thought it was intereting for those of you who also never considered updating the one peice of computer hardware that ALWAYS (by me atleast) gets overlooked when you're trying to make things smoother

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[yacob.naif 10+ year member]

another thing i forgot to mention, that i had no idea was even a function of the modem itself, is that rather than webpages popping up one picture at a time (which always drove me nuts) with the new modem, all pictures download at the same time, albeit a bit slower, but the pages complete a lot faster overall, which is awesome

 

[TheGreatMonkey 10+ year member]

I used a cable modem for only a week. It was the slowest POS I have ever used. It was so slow, it made dial-up look fast.

 

[yacob.naif 10+ year member]

the only gripe i have with cable is the fact that your line speed isn't constant........

i know in my area, the basic package is 5.1Mb/s, but you're never GAURANTEED that line speed, if there's a lot of users online in your area, your actual speed may drop considerably

but in each location i've lived over the last few years, i've been really lucky, i notice some slowdown around 5-8PM, of course, but then it speeds up a LOT later in the evening, and i'm almost always right at 5.0 or 5.1mb/s

DSL has the advantage of a 24/7 constant connection, but costs more, and doesn't handle filesharing NEARLY as well, it's best suited for large, single-connection downloads, and doesn't handle 100's of connections ( a la bit-torrent or web-surfing) anywhere near as well as cable.

The only win-win is a T1, and paying $400-600 a month for internet access doesn't really fit into my budget right now.

 

[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

I'm on cable.

 

[yacob.naif 10+ year member]

prices and speeds vary wildly from place to place

i know in some places out west, there's packages as high as 16 down/1 up, and some places, people are still on not rate, but actual size limits....... Where you buy your connection according to how much data you can download per month!

 

[yacob.naif 10+ year member]

you should see the speed test results for the crazy assholes who flat out write a complete BS cap script for their modems, and hog the entire network bandwidth

can't do it for more than a few minutes without a high risk of getting caught, but still, the speeds they hit are insane, and i think the fastest modems that people can uncap right now are the older motorola sb4100's and sb5101's, which are pretty slow by today's standards, i think their actual maximum hardware d/l speeds are only in the mid 20's

once people figure out how to hack these newer ~50Mb/s modems, they're gonna be taking down the entire internet............ and most likely ruin it for everyone in one way or another...............

 

[Chevillac 5,000+ posts]

I'm on cable.

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[gl0ck 10+ year member]

you should see the speed test results for the crazy assholes who flat out write a complete BS cap script for their modems, and hog the entire network bandwidth
can't do it for more than a few minutes without a high risk of getting caught, but still, the speeds they hit are insane, and i think the fastest modems that people can uncap right now are the older motorola sb4100's and sb5101's, which are pretty slow by today's standards, i think their actual maximum hardware d/l speeds are only in the mid 20's

once people figure out how to hack these newer ~50Mb/s modems, they're gonna be taking down the entire internet............ and most likely ruin it for everyone in one way or another...............

I remember hearing all about that crazy shit.

 

[wilzyx 5,000+ posts]

not bad for 20 a month, and being split over 2 computers

 

[wilzyx 5,000+ posts]

lol someone test dial up

 

[bigbangtheory 5,000+ posts]

I am on cable at work, but isnt that fast. My cable at home is fast as shit. I will have to test it when I get there.

 

[yacob.naif 10+ year member]

hey springy, head over to http://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php

and try those tcp setting patches if you haven't already

those speeds look a bit low, that may help quite a bit depending on your o/s

 

[yne721 10+ year member]

split over 3 comps and my xbox.

best so far. hurry someone beat me.

edit: dev ***** me on upload speed lawl

 

[spljunkiems 10+ year member]

i have cable...dslreports.com clocked me @976k/sec thats fast enough for me