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Posted by Tom Stiller on June 30, 2007, 11:04 pm
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> Andrew Rossmann wrote:
> > ffgeorge@yourplace.com says...
> >> One more reason to rent...when they upgrade to the new software
> >> versions that the old ones are not compatible with. Happened to me
> >> last year, fortunately, for me, I also rent. They came out and
> >> replaced it no charge. I think it was the new "docsis" but that may be
> >> the wrong word. This year I upgraded to a "business" account and it
> >> was a different modem altogether. Even came with, for $5.00 per month,
> >> a static IP address. "Business" account itself is $75.00 more per
> >> month, but does give them just 24 hours to fix any outages. Just like
> >> a hi-rise downtown, they now show up and fix it when my neighborhood
> >> goes down.
> >
> > If you do buy, stick with a name brand. The Motorola SB5120 may not be
> > cheap, but it's extremely popular and common. Many rentals are either
> > the 5120 or a variation of it.
> >
> Comcast recently replaced my rented Motorola modem with a
> Scientific-Atlanta model DPC2100R2. Together with their faster service,
> I'm now achieving 40 to 60 KB per second, using PC Mag's Surfspeed.
>
That's low by about a factor of 10.
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