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Re: Cable modem recommendation for RCN San Francisco?

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From: David H. Lipman
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 00:36
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I suggest Linksys or Motorola.

Dave



"Yeechang Lee" <ylee@pobox.com> wrote in message news:slrnco5agd.990.ylee@pobox.com...
| Next week I'm moving into a downtown San Francisco apartment building
| that's wired for RCN. I have ordered the new Mach 7 service, which
| claims up to 7000Kbps downloads and 800Kbps uploads.
|
| I'll believe it when I see it, but it occurs to me that should such
| speeds prove real, choosing a particular make and model cable modem to
| buy (as I'm considering in order to save the $5 rental fee) may be
| important in a way that isn't so for the more common 1500Kbps or
| 3000Kbps speeds that I had through Comcast in the Peninsula.
|
| RCN provides a list of compatible modems
| (<URL:http://www.rcn.com/internet/highspeed/modem_purchase.php>), and
| oddly recommends
| (<URL:http://help.rcn.com/redirectprimus.asp?id=45d0229c-a36c-11d8-9741-0003ba0e8cdc>)
| the discontinued Toshiba PXC2200 and 2500. Should I go to the extra
| trouble of tracking one of these down, or can I just buy a Motorola
| SB5100 or some other model on the approved list and expect to see the
| maximum possible performance?
|
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