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Posted by Timothy Daniels on October 7, 2005, 12:02 pm
> "Timothy Daniels" wrote:
>
>
>> ....unless it has a lower price than Motorola and D-Link,
>> whose prices seem to have risen back to levels seen
>> earlier this year. Fortunately, I can wait. Thanks for
>> the insight.
>
> Tim,
> You're going to be waiting for a ship that has already sailed.
> The PCX2600 has already come and gone. Toshiba has
> gotten out of the cable modem business.
>
> After much research I decided that was the model I wanted,
> though, so I hit eBay and found one at a great price. If you buy
> one you'll be pleased. There are no bugs or deficiencies in
> either the hardware or the firmware. You just won't ever find
> one in a retail or online store unless you find a place that has
> some old stock.
>
> If my PCX2600 died tomorrow I'd move heaven and earth to
> find another one.
>
> And what some people say about all DOCSIS modems being
> alike is not true. Some have troublesome ethernet ports that
> cause glitches hooked up to some routers. Some lock up or
> reboot under heavy loads like BitTorrent. Some are victim to
> lots of line errors. Some have hardware problems like the RCA
> modems that have troublesome power connectors
> that develop shorts.
>
> Some say you can't go wrong with a Motorola. I almost bought
> one. At the last minute though I thought it'd be wise to call my ISP
> and ask them what they recommended to be used on their network.
> Their reply was "Buy anything except a Motorola. We have had an
> extraordinarily high amount of service calls & trouble tickets with
> those."
>
> So, thank you very much, but I'll stick with the PCX2600 till it's
> rendered obsolete.
Thanks for the info. I was wondering why the prices for the
D-Link and Motorola cable modems had drifted back up to
their initial prices seen in July. Maybe the expected competi-
tion from Toshiba was what brought them down, and their
prices will stay up for a while until another manufacturer
introduces a DOCSIS 2.0 cable modem. I also wonder if the
high recall rate seen with Motorolas by your ISP was with the
SB5100 model - the one with the Broadcom chipset. Maybe
that's why Motorola later went with the Texas Instruments chipset
for their SB5120, a model that has identical features as described
on Motorola's website. Right now, the only feature that leans me
toward the Motorola is the quick disconnect button on the top
that allows one to quickly disconnect if there appears to be
unexpected internet traffic occurring (spyware?, spambot?
virusmail?). Do you know if any of the other DOCSIS 2.0 cable
modems sport such a "panic" button?
*TimDaniels*
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