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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

I am not a network engineer, or anything comparable, but when I worked at
RCN, teching cable modem service, we had very good luck with the Toshiba's,
and poorer luck with the Surfboards, RCA's, and 3Coms.  If you get the
Linksys, I believe version 3 has some additional zip, or substantive
improvement over ver. 2.

Make sure you read RCN's listings carefully, as Chicago is different than
all our other cities as far as network, wiring, services and what may work
elsewhere may not work there, or vice versa (they note this in the list of
compatible modems).
If RCN recommends the Toshiba's, and you can find one cheaper on the net, if
you should have a problem, when you do call in, you will be able to say
"Hey, I bought the one you recommended, so stand by your recommendation and
help me!" or some such exhortation.
Any modem should have specs to indicate capabilities for max speeds etc.  My
impression is that whenever RCN offered the speedier connections, they have
been true to their word.  Initially they went to a 3000Kbps on a trial basis
in a few markets over two years ago, after that proved popular and
successful they went to the 5000Kbps option and now I guess the the
7000Kbps.
You could always call in to RCN tech support, tell them you are moving into
an RCN building, and want to buy your own modem, and ask what has been
working the best there (SF)..  If you repeat this a few times, you should
get some useful info.
Good luck.

dj

"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-11d8-9741-0003
ba0e8cdc>)
> 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