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On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 12:50, Kevin Brown wrote:
> Bryce C wrote:
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> > On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 10:33, Kevin wrote:=20
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> >>On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 11:13, Mark Phillips wrote:
> >>
> >>>I talked to Cox the weekend about buying a cable modem and returning t=
he
> >>>one I am renting. The tech recommended Motorola and Toshiba. I have ha=
d
> >>>a Toshiba modem (PCX1100 - now out of date) for a couple of years of
> >>>continuous service and no problems. However, I went to Best Buy and
> >>>found the new Toshiba is $79 and the "same" Motorola unit was $59.00
> >>>after a $20 rebate.=20
> >>>
> >>>The only requirement from cox is that the modem must be DOCSIS 1.1
> >>>compliant. I heard a rumor that cox will be upgrading their modems to
> >>>DOCSIS 2.0 in about 6 months. Both the Toshiba and Motorola modems are
> >>>DOCSIS 2.0 compliant.=20
> >>
> >>For whatever it's worth, I had to return a Motorola cable modem because
> >>I could not get it to negotiate an upstream speed higher than about
> >>30Kbps on COX residential high-speed internet service.  Downstream
> >>speeds were normal.
> >>
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> > So the upstream cap is higher than 256 kilobits per second? I guess I
> > have a call to make, if this is true. I just thought that 256Kbps was a=
t
> > least close to a reasonable upstream rate for residential, not to
> > mention I could not find a single word about "speed" (in actual numbers=
)
> > on their website.
> > Thanks.
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> > P.S. My downstream speeds are fine and sometimes go above 3Mbps for
> > about a minute.
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> 30kbps is a far cry from 256kbps.  Now if he had said 30KB/s or said that=
 it was=20
> at a time when the cap wasn't in place (there wasn't always an upload cap=
), then=20
> it would be much better than 256kbps (16KB/s).
Ok, so I misread his initial post and thought he had written, or meant to w=
rite 30 kilobytes per second. My mistake. However, 256Kbps divided by 8 equ=
als 32KB/s, not 16. Where does the eight come from? There are 8 bits to a b=
yte.

Sorry,
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Bryce C <Plug@BryceCo.Net>
CoBryce Communications

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