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JJCDAD wrote:I think the Motorola SB6120 or SB6121 are the best DOCSIS 3.0 modems around. Never had much luck with the modem/router gateway devices.
JJCDAD wrote:QFT.
thegleek wrote:Isn't that what this forum does? What does phpBB stand for?sigh.... the ole' bbs days will never exist again.
thegleek wrote:i miss old modems... 300 baud.. 1200.. 2400... 14.4k....28.8k.... 56k.... sigh.... the ole' bbs days will never exist again.
just brew it! wrote:I still have a 300 baud acoustic coupler somewhere in the crawlspace.
Edit: Here's a pic of it I posted in a forum thread several years ago:
TheWacoKid wrote:You can get a Surfboard 5101U for ~$25 on Ebay. I just sent one to my mom this week since hers died and she started renting one from Comcast.
ShadowEyez wrote:I recently got a zoom dosics 3 modem for comcast and it works as well. The moto 6121 was expensive for a on/of switch and a high end transmitter
spartus4 wrote:I think they should do a reality TV show with a bunch of teenagers living in a house and all they have is technology from say '80 to maybe '90. I think it would be hilarious. I know there would be a lot of screaming. It might help kids understand why some adults are tech dumb.
LoneWolf15 wrote:TheWacoKid wrote:You can get a Surfboard 5101U for ~$25 on Ebay. I just sent one to my mom this week since hers died and she started renting one from Comcast.
The 5-series is only DOCSIS 2. If you're not in a DOCSIS 3 area, that's fine, but if you are, you're short-changing yourself when it comes to performance and continuous throughput.
For your mom, this probably isn't a big deal. For you, or other enthusiasts, it is. also, the Surfboard 6 series has a better case design that keeps the internals cooler.ShadowEyez wrote:I recently got a zoom dosics 3 modem for comcast and it works as well. The moto 6121 was expensive for a on/of switch and a high end transmitter
The USR Courier V.Everything was expensive for a box, too. While I can't comment on Zoom Telephonics' current reliability (they were decent in analog modem days until their final year or two when they started watering down their products), people buy the Motorola for the same reason they bought USR's Courier. Guaranteed compatibility and support with most cable services (Comcast, for example, doesn't officially support all modems), and long-term reliability.
$80-90 for a Motorola cable modem doesn't bother me considering I'd have paid more than that this year for monthly rental fees from the cableco for theirs. I can justify it no problem. Heck, a Courier V.Everything was $200 back in the day, but for something you use every day of the year, something you can count on is worth it.
Nothing against the Zoom, btw --I just think "expensive" is relative for something you use all the time for a service you don't want to be without.
Captain Ned wrote:Good luck finding a phone that will fit in the coupler.
Turkina wrote:Holy crap JBI - you could accidentally dial into NORAD with a setup like that.
I'd recommend going straight for the tic-tac-toe.
just brew it! wrote:There's the carcass of an old IMSAI somewhere in the crawlspace too, to go with that old school modem...
LoneWolf15 wrote:Let me guess, it's lying next to a pile of MFM and RLL hard drives, a Hercules CGA card, and a 5.25" single-side floppy drive. And if we dig further, maybe we can find an eight-bit ISA RAM expansion card for those who found that 256k just wasn't enough.
LoneWolf15 wrote:just brew it! wrote:There's the carcass of an old IMSAI somewhere in the crawlspace too, to go with that old school modem...
Let me guess, it's lying next to a pile of MFM and RLL hard drives, a Hercules CGA card, and a 5.25" single-side floppy drive. And if we dig further, maybe we can find an eight-bit ISA RAM expansion card for those who found that 256k just wasn't enough.