new Cable modem... 4x faster...Hot Dog!

[earlyre]

Spectrum recently upgraded us lowly folks with 100Mbps internet to 400 Mbps.( still only 11 up). my existing customer owned Modem ( Arris SB6121 Refurb bought in 2017) apparently didn't support the newer speed.
did some minor research , and settled on a Refurbished Netgear CM1200 ( bought on Amazon, but Sold by Woot!) for $99

anywho, new one came today, hooked it up, self service activation portal wouldn't work, so quick support chat later... Success!
first thing i Did was run a speed test, a little over 400 down/11 up. 4x faster D/L. no higher monthly charge, just had to shell out a hundo. on equipment.

 

[Drive MX5]

I had a similar situation with Cox Communications on their "free" modem. Once the Cox tech swapped in a newer make and model modem off of the service vehicle (Surfboard for Arris), speed immediately increased to the 300mbps which my plan allows.

 

[ripcord]

You're older modem was probably a DOCSIS 3.0 one and to get the higher speeds you needed a DOCSIS 3.1 model with more data channels.

 

[eljefino]

I had Adelphia/TWC/Spectrum for 20 years at 20 mbps. Even bought a DOCSIS 3.1 modem with no change when I heard my neighbors were getting more.

Turns out I was grandfathered on a really stupid plan and for a few pennies more could get 300 (now 400) mbps. They sent me postcards and emails all that time trying to get me to get video and phone as well, which I ignored. If they had told me they could make my internet faster I'd have bit!

Incidentally, they just raised my rates $3 then announced the jump in speed within the same month, claiming it was "without raising my rates." ???

 

[ripcord]

I had Adelphia/TWC/Spectrum for 20 years at 20 mbps. Even bought a DOCSIS 3.1 modem with no change when I heard my neighbors were getting more.

Turns out I was grandfathered on a really stupid plan and for a few pennies more could get 300 (now 400) mbps. They sent me postcards and emails all that time trying to get me to get video and phone as well, which I ignored. If they had told me they could make my internet faster I'd have bit!

Incidentally, they just raised my rates $3 then announced the jump in speed within the same month, claiming it was "without raising my rates." ???

I bet you didn't even notice that much difference in your internet speed unless you have a bunch of people in your house streaming video content all the time.

 

[earlyre]

You're older modem was probably a DOCSIS 3.0 one and to get the higher speeds you needed a DOCSIS 3.1 model with more data channels.

You are correct sir!

 

[PWMDMD]

I pull about 650 Mbps down and 23 Mbps up on what is supposed to be 400/20 service. I can have four 4k TVs going simultaneously while the kids are playing online video games and streaming video to each other and never a hiccup.

 

[eljefino]

I bet you didn't even notice that much difference in your internet speed unless you have a bunch of people in your house streaming video content all the time.

My upload went from 2 to 10 and it helps my wife WFH through her VPN. She renders big pdfs and it goes better now.

 

[SwampSurvivor]

I had Adelphia/TWC/Spectrum for 20 years at 20 mbps. Even bought a DOCSIS 3.1 modem with no change when I heard my neighbors were getting more.

Turns out I was grandfathered on a really stupid plan and for a few pennies more could get 300 (now 400) mbps. They sent me postcards and emails all that time trying to get me to get video and phone as well, which I ignored. If they had told me they could make my internet faster I'd have bit!

Incidentally, they just raised my rates $3 then announced the jump in speed within the same month, claiming it was "without raising my rates." ???

Adelphia ... there's a name I haven't heard in decades!

 

[alarmguy]

I remember when Spectrum doubled our speed download speed, still the same old SLOW 12 Mbps upload speed on a good day. Made sure to tell us no price increase.
That didnt last long once everyone was upgraded, then the price went up 50% over a two year period I think from $49 to now I think its $80+ ...

Anyway we moved just over a year ago, now part of a Fiberoptic co-op here on the coast. Actual payment $57.95 for symmetrical 300 Mbps (upload and download) For $80 I can have 1GB which is just throwing away money for something you can not use, not needed nor can be used in a typical household. Maybe if you download video files or something non mainstream.

 

[earlyre]

I remember when Spectrum doubled our speed download speed, still the same old SLOW 12 Mbps upload speed on a good day. Made sure to tell us no price increase.
That didnt last long once everyone was upgraded, then the price went up 50% over a two year period I think from $49 to now I think its $80+ ...

Anyway we moved just over a year ago, now part of a Fiberoptic co-op here on the coast. Actual payment $57.95 for symmetrical 300 Mbps (upload and download) For $80 I can have 1GB which is just throwing away money for something you can not use, not needed nor can be used in a typical household. Maybe if you download video files or something non mainstream.

where I am, Spectrum is pretty much the only game in town ( that's worth paying for)...the small Hick town 10 mi west of me however, has Brightspeed Fiber available, All Symetrical starting at $49/mo, and for what we're paying Spectrum (for what was 100/11,and is now 400/11) if they were here we could have gig.

 

[OVERKILL]

where I am, Spectrum is pretty much the only game in town ( that's worth paying for)...the small Hick town 10 mi west of me however, has Brightspeed Fiber available, All Symetrical starting at $49/mo, and for what we're paying Spectrum (for what was 100/11,and is now 400/11) if they were here we could have gig.

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Yeah, that's basically how I ended up with Bell, I'm paying $63/month after tax for 1.5Gbit/1Gbit fibre which replaced my 300Mbit cable which was near twice the price.

 

[wavinwayne]

Our local utility upgraded us to fiber recently. Near gig speed down/up is SO NICE!

 

[kschauweker]

You're older modem was probably a DOCSIS 3.0 one and to get the higher speeds you needed a DOCSIS 3.1 model with more data channels.

DOCSIS 3.0 modem capable of download speeds up to 1.0 Gbps.
DOCSIS 3.1 modem capable of download speeds up to 10.0 Gbps.

 

[ripcord]

DOCSIS 3.0 modem capable of download speeds up to 1.0 Gbps.
DOCSIS 3.1 modem capable of download speeds up to 10.0 Gbps.

Depends on the model. Most 3.0 modems didn't support 1gb speeds even if the protocol supported it.

 

[kschauweker]

My ARRIS Surfboard SB6190 32x8 DOCSIS 3.0
After rebooting my Modem
Spectrum 400Mps/10Mps Plan

 

[Tomioka]

My ARRIS Surfboard SB6190 32x8 DOCSIS 3.0
500Mps/10Mps Plan
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Poo Ma pants. Speed don't mean anything with the poor latency and jitters from the defective intel chipset. Should've dumped that modem 5 years ago.
Get yourself an SB8200 during the holiday season. Spectrum is beginning to phase out DOCSIS 3.0 to take advantage of the OFDM channels in DOCSIS 3.1 (2x2 OFDM vs 32X8 SC-QAM channels.)

 

[andrew_j]

That is nice upgrade you’ll notice a lot. Now speed upgrades of 100 Mbps or even 400 Mbps become less noticeable in everyday usage. They put out you in a sweet spot.

 

[John105]

I’ve always found cable to be funny. Have installed it at field offices at work. One office in Glastonbury CT they had to install a new node just for us (took weeks I was joking I’ll just split off the next door tenant).

Since it’s shared nothing can be done about the upload. My bro has comcast gigabit (slow these days lol) and only 27-30 up.

People always say who needs any of that. Well my phone is backed up to Amazon and without a decent (100+) upload, pics take forever.

My home is the obsolete 100/100 fios. Tend to get 120-130 up, 90-100 down.

 

[PandaBear]

I bet you didn't even notice that much difference in your internet speed unless you have a bunch of people in your house streaming video content all the time.

or Torrent. The server side rarely have 300mbps for one client. Even if you want to use that much speed where are you getting it from?

During the early days of pandemic I realized my webex / team / zoom calls keep dropping and then finally my workplace IT helped narrow it down to my old router, not the cable modem, being too old and would drop a lot of packet upstream past 6mbps or 20mbps downstream. After replacing the router with no modem update the speed went up a lot. It was a 10 year old N router going to a 1 year old AC one, with only 50mbps DOCSIS 3.0 4x4.