Comcast: HA.

[makryger]

I just got a message from comcast telling me that comcast has increased the speeds of their High speed internet service, and to take full advantage of those speeds, I "need" to replace my current modem with a DOCSIS 3.0 modem. My speed was 25/5... they've upped it to 50/5. Despite the fact that even 25/5 was overkill for me. So now they want me to spend $80 on a docsis 3.0 modem? No thank you. Especially since docsis 2.0 can handle up to 40/10 on it's own. Now the question is- if I unplug/plug back in my current modem... will it no longer be supported?

[richard1980]

Your current modem should work just fine. Comcast is correct that in order to take advantage of the 50 Mbps download speed, a DOCSIS 3.0 modem is required, but there's nothing that says you must use a DOCSIS 3.0 modem. A DOCSIS 2.0 modem will work, it'll just be restricted to about 38 Mbps.

[makryger]

Right, from a technical strandpoint, it should work fine. But comcast can just say they won't keep it activated and take it off my account, since it is no longer officially supported.

anyways, I did end up trying to reset it and see what speeds I got- now I am up to 31 download, and 10 upload. (on wireless laptop). Yikes, thats too fast for me! I'd almost want to downgrade if I weren't getting a promotional rate.

[newfiend]

Wait..what? Internet too fast? No such Thing...lol

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