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Posted by John Gray on July 2, 2007, 9:28 am
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> Could be because they're VOIP. There are a lot more reconditioned
> standard modems than VOIP out there. When we had Adelphia, I went in to
> swap out mine and they were all reconditioned RCA and Terayons - I took
> the Terayon since my previous one was also Terayon and I knew they had a
> decent status page and such and some of those RCAs had the loose power
> connection problem and not great reviews. They probably get the cost
> back in 3 months of rental tops.
>
VOIP was likely the cause, I can see that. On the first USR Sharkfin, it
was probably new due to the fact that TimeWarner had taken over the local
cable company about two years earlier and had to update the entire cable
system in order to offer first digital tv and then RR. I hooked up to RR
within a month of it becoming available here. On the web interface of the
Sharkfin, it was quite easy to see the cap set on the modem for both
upstream and downstream. If I were technical enough, perhaps there is a
way to interpret the connection information on the current Motorola modem's
local web page.
The tests the tech ran when she was here to change out the first VOIP modem
indicated that the cap was 5Mb up/ 512Kb down. We weren't on 7Mb yet
although some RR locales have. This was in February, IIRC.
--
John Gray
If you don't have a reason, at least have an excuse.
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