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Article #26Re: Cable modem recommendation for RCN San Francisco?
From: David H. Lipman
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 00:36
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? | | -- | Read my Deep Thoughts @ <URL:http://www.ylee.org/blog/> PERTH ----> * | Cpu(s): 25.6% us, 4.5% sy, 69.8% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.1% hi, 0.0% si | Mem: 516148k total, 512708k used, 3440k free, 4764k buffers | Swap: 2101032k total, 642208k used, 1458824k free, 180832k cached
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