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@comcast.net | reply to gar187er
Re: [Connectivity] what is unicast maintenance ranging said by gar187er:you can buy an arris emta from best buy....and again comcast has nothing to do with availability of modems in stores.....
the reason they have 3 stars is that comcast uses mostly arris c4 cmts....
my 760 arris works like a jewel....as does my 604.....on the other hand older moto 5220s were garbage....and thats personal/work exp.
also his signals are fine...+7/50.....
I don't agree that his signals are OK. His downstream may be ok, but his upstream dBmV is too high. As that thing starts crossing the 50 mark, it'll actually cause timeouts on network traffic and slowdowns. He'll see it as speed slowness when in fact it's more like packet loss because it's dropping all over the place. If he was to do a ping -t to something reliable like maybe 4.2.2.1, I bet he sees some packet loss. |
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@comcast.net | Oh, and to the OP, yes... the Moto Gateway modems do tend to suck. A lot of that isn't the modem side of things, it's the router side of things... I remember when the SB5xxx Gateways were released with wireless. The wireless covered the room it was in and nothing more. I worked with one at one client site until I pretty much decided they were trash and it wasn't worth the hassle of poor coverage just to have it all in a one-box solution.
Buy yourself a legit Motorola standalone modem and a good router and be done with it. However, before all that, just fix the signal issues because they are not perfect. |
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 EGThe wings of lovePremium
join:2006-11-18
Union, NJ
kudos:9 | reply to not
said by not : If he was to do a ping -t to something reliable like maybe 4.2.2.1, I bet he sees some packet loss.
Pinging something closer like one's WAN (Comcast) default gateway would be more accurate for narrowing down local RF signal issues. |
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 gar187erI do this for a living
join:2006-06-24
Dover, DE
kudos:4 | reply to not
50 doesnt cause packet loss...max transmit or higher (54 on 64qam) does....
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Upstream is always 50 > 53. Comcast told me such levels are ok. |
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