Re: Comcast
[Re: Geo]
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11/17/17 08:56 PM
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What model is your router? From the Wikipedia description, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DocsisDOCSIS 3.1 will allow faster Internet connections, so you may want to make sure your router can support them. Otherwise, even if your router is compatible with the new modem, you won't get the increased speed if the router is a bottleneck.
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Re: Comcast
[Re: Geo]
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11/18/17 04:24 AM
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Re: Comcast
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11/18/17 11:54 AM
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The E1000 is an older wireless N router which only supports up to 300 Mbps data transfer.
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Re: Comcast
[Re: Geo]
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11/18/17 02:27 PM
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I suppose it depends on what kind of speeds they are going to be providing, but here are some at Amazon. Docsis modems
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Re: Comcast
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11/18/17 04:04 PM
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From what I understand, this DOCSIS 3.1 is capable of Gbit speeds. Hopefully, they will provide you with the modem and info on what kind of speeds they will by supplying.
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Re: Comcast
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11/22/17 04:28 PM
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Oh, wow on that Norton Core Router! But $279 plus another $120 a year is also "wow!"
I really like the TP Link Archer brand. It's definitely not quite the eye appeal of the Norton Core though! The maximum throughput is 1.75 Gb where the Norton Core is 2.5. Did you ever find out speed what Comcast will be pushing through?
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Re: Comcast
[Re: Geo]
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12/21/17 11:28 AM
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I would have had no idea what it meant either and would have done the same thing you did. Can't say I've ever run into in during a router installation either.
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Re: Comcast
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12/21/17 11:56 AM
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Here is my beef. I didn't know what that meant and I doubt many people would. There was no manual and only a "quick start guide" included and no where on that guide did it say to say yes to that question. If I hadn't found that obscure video I would still be working on the problem. I know what "clone a MAC address" means, but I wouldn't know whether a particular ISP required it or not. By default every router has a different MAC address. Unless you configure the new router to have the same MAC as the old one (by cloning it), the ISP won't recognize the new router as "your" router and will reject the connection. Before routers allowed cloning of MAC addresses, you'd have to phone your ISP to have them accept the MAC address of the new router.
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Re: Comcast
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12/21/17 01:04 PM
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I'm thinking that may have been part of why I couldn't get a new router to work a couple of years ago. I even sent one back... when the second one wouldn't work, I called my ISP and they said, "Oh, no. We have to do something here when you install a new router." Of course after whatever they did, the second one worked. How is the average user supposed to know this!!
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