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Shouldn't Cox replace the modem?<br>
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In any case, I have a brand new modem, i think a Motorola, that
would be happy to find a new home if it comes to that.<br>
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Harold<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/27/2015 11:50 PM, Michael Butash
wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/27/2015 11:20 PM, Michael
Butash wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I doubt you have a modem failure.
I've never had a modem fail, and very few do - rather they are
usually replaced because 1) someone missed a level issue
somewhere, 2) they were blew out with lightning, or 3) you
wanted a docsis 3.x modem for better speed.<br>
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I take that back - buy either a cisco/scientific atlanta modem, or
a motorola, always. Moto made the first docsis modems, and still
generally make the best, otherwise cisco (!linksys). If not, it's
a firmware incompat between the cmts and it, it has happened.<br>
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I don't know how much they allow crap to enter that market these
days, but you used to find the "Best Quality" Fry's special modems
in the docsis1.1-2.0 days that would literally degrade over time
like an hourglass running out of sand, but electronically. Crap
components, capacitors, ic's and such break down electronically,
incomplete hand-solders from workforce sweatships, radio's
modulating data on rf freak out doing weird things the cmts
doesn't like to enact mitigation techniques. <br>
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Caveat emptor, just buy a moto/cisco and be happy, cox uses cisco
cmts's upstream to terminate your connections. They began
blacklisting "bad modems" specifically at one point, I think
CableLabs made them clean up to certify (vs. world+dog), maybe...<br>
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-mb<br>
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