You should consider upgrading to a newer modem soon. I don't believe Comcast will activate 8x4 modems anymore.
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What service tier do you have? Are you getting the speed you are paying for? As long as you're getting full speed and everything works properly I'd stick with the Arris TM822R modem for now. I have this love/hate/hate_more relationship with Comcast but I have no love at all for Verizon. I know that Comcast is going to charge me $5/month to use my own equpment but that's better than paying $14/month for the XFi gateway.
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Yes, I know it's not state of the art, but it works with our Internet service, and it gives me the flexibility to upgrade easily to a mesh WiFi setup in the future.
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It's DOCSIS 3.0, download speeds up to 343 Mbps, 8 download & 4 upload channels, and works with Comcast Voice. With X1, any reason I can't use my perfectly good Arris Surfboard TM822R modem, all paid for. So I feel like she was "making me an offer I can't refuse." It didn't help much that the XFinity lady at the reception desk said that non-X1 set top boxes would soon be discontinued. Issue is that my wife lost lots of recordings from PBS that are no longer available for free, so I'm looking at X1. The Motorola set top box died so I did an exchange. I'm have Comcast/Xfinity lots of "Play" and right now we have a non-X1 setup. You want to look at 2.5gb equipment, the other kicker is 2.5gb is a niche standard that a lot of 10gb equipment won't link at either. I get the paying for it argument, but then my answer is why pay for it? You often really will only see the benefit in doing speed tests. Good QoS is key and understanding that most things you are connecting to won't run at those speeds anyways IE the bottleneck will be on the other end. We run entire enterprise buildings with servers and 500+ users on links that speed and even sometimes less. Wifi is even harder as there are protocols spec'ed at high rates, but those again are perfect world and you often won't see those in real world scenarios.Īnd yes, anything up at that ~gigabit link level is ridiculously fast. To go above that you need to use the 2.5gb link port that the XB7 does have (its the one with the orange line) and equipment that can run at that link or higher all the way to your device. So again, I will repeat, normal gigabit links in a PERFECT scenario (like lab perfect) max out at ~940mbps. If there were any unmitigated issues with these modems, I would be feeling them and I don't. Since that time, I changed the plan to 300/25 and then when we moved the plan changed to 400/10 and then 600/10, 600/15, and now 800/15-all on the same sb6190 modem.Īnd as a side note on the sb6190 since people talk about the 'puma' scare, I've had zero issues as I use one on my end and one on the other end of a 24x7 nailed up ipsec tunnel that runs rdp sessions through it (latency sensitive). There wasn't so I dropped their modem and added an Archer c5 as an access point. And then swapped back and forth a few times to see if there were any speed or other issues and if there was a way to get their equipment to behave. I needed to have a public IP on my equipment without any filtering so I had to finally get my own modem-sb6190. I started out with a 150/25? plan where I was on their modem. Has anyone gone between xfiinity devices and then to their own? If yes.what say you?Ĭlick to expand.I've been with them since 2018 in two different cities and a couple of different plans. I plan on calling them this next week, but curios to know if I just go back to my Arris S33 and give them back their modem if the speeds would then fall in line with what I am paying. Now that I have my office setup and plan on going back to see why the speeds are not higher. This has been since October since I started, but I travel for work so I am not always watching. I just reconfigured my office in order to hardwire main rig and now getting in the 700-800 mbps range.upload has been consistent around 30-40.
I am on the 1200 Mbps plan and notice that the wifi (the xfinity is disabled) via my router/mesh is like 500 Mbps or so. I chose using theirs in passthough mode to my router to see what it would be. During setup they said I can use my own modem, but it would not be unlimited unless I paid an additional fee, or I could use their modem/router for a fee but the data would be unlimited. Now, I have moved to Florida and on xfinity. I bought an Arris S33 and all my problems went away. In Texas I was using a CM1200 on Spectrum and was getting consistent crashes and chalk it up to the ISP not updating the firmware and me not having the ability to do it. I have always used my own modem, and router through Comcast, spectrum and abroad. There are many similar posts to this and I have read most, but wanted to know if anyone starting their xfinity service with the ISP provided router and then switched back to their own and the results.
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