Re: considering comcast/xfinity
John Osmon <[email protected]>
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I regularly find DOCSIS 3.0 modems like the Motorola Surfboard at Thrift stores for around $5. On Sun, Jun 07, 2020 at 01:19:28PM -0600, Anthony J. Bentley wrote: > Hi Mark, > > Mark Galassi writes: > > techies in Santa Fe: considering switching from uswest/qwest/centurylink > > (which will not do good speeds downtown) to xfinity/comcast (which says > > they will). i'll try it for a month. any advice on what cable modem > > hardware to get? any other things to consider for downtown santa fe > > broadband? > > In Albuquerque, I use a Motorola SB6141. I bought it because it has > one cable jack and one ethernet port; I wanted to use my own wireless > router. It only supports about 300 Mbps max (my own service isn't > anywhere close to that); if you want something faster and don't mind > bringing your own router, one of the bigger models like SB6190 or SB8200 > is the first direction I'd look. > > -- > Anthony J. Bentley > _______________________________________________ > nmglug mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nmglug.org/listinfo.cgi/nmglug-nmglug.org