Re: [H] 1000Mbs up and 50Mbs down...or is it

[_ Winterlight]

7 months ago I was paying 55 for 100 down.  I moved here in 2017 from southern 
CA where I had a COX account that was charging me $55 for 25 down and 2 up and 
an awful lot for cable TV with box rental. When I arrived here I was paying a 
similar amount but for 100 down and 5 up. But my TV kept going up until last 
May it was over 190 with internet and that is when I said the hell with this. I 
put an antenna up which gave me all the Networks and 5 PBS channels. Then I 
signed up for PHILO for 20 bucks a month and I already had Prime video and it 
did the job. I also jumped my speed up to 200Mbs so I could get a higher data 
limit.

But then American competition kicked in and a new provider TEW came to town and 
started laying down fiber optic cable and offering great  2 year deal bundles 
if you signed up in advance. Cable One changed it's name to Sparklight and 
seems to be getting out of the TV business or the TV business is leaving them 
and now they seem to be concentrating on internet. I found out about the 1000 
for $75 by accident before they even announced it and I am probably one of the 
first customers. I was one of the very first customers to sign up for cable 
when I was in CA. I called the second I saw them installing fiber on my street. 
It was uncapped, wide open and no restrictions. When I inquired about the speed 
they told me that it would depend on how many people on my street would be 
accessing it. That lasted about six months but it was a hell of a ride. I am 
hoping this is a similar experience.


From: Hardware  on behalf of 
Christopher Fisk 
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2021 6:14 AM
To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com 
Subject: Re: [H] 1000Mbs up and 50Mbs down...or is it

1000mb here is over $200/mo, I can't justify it when I already have 60mb
"included free" in my rent. (I use quotes around included free because my
rent went up $80/mo when they announced free cable with rent).

It does what I need.

On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 4:04 PM _ Winterlight 
wrote:

> I would never of thought that I would spend the money or even justify a
> need for 1000Mbs internet service but at $75 per month with Sparklight I
> couldn't say no. However, once it was turned on I discovered some realties.
> From the beginning I was not getting more then 400Mbs. So Sparklight
> investigated and sent a tech out but by the time he got here they had fixed
> the problem in the line and the end of my coaxial tested 940Mbs. However,
> the tech pointed out that  my modem can't actually deliver 1000Mps even if
> it was advertised as such my existing Motorola 24x8 Cable Modem, Model
> MB7621, DOCSIS 3.0. Approved by Comcast Xfinity, Cox, Charter Spectrum,
> Time Warner Cable, and More. Downloads 1,000<
> https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B077BL65HS/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1>
> tested at  600 to 800 direct from the modem.
>
> But once it was plugged into my Ubiquity Edge X router all speeds dropped
> from 175 to 400 max. After a few days emailing Ubiquity  support it was
> determined that firmware updates had disabled offload modules and the
> router was governing the speeds. Offloading is used to execute functions of
> the router using the hardware directly, instead of a process of software
> functions. The benefit of offloading in EdgeOS is increased performance and
> throughput by not depending on the CPU for forwarding decisions. So once I
> was back to default settings the router shot up close to what the modem was
> delivering. Fortunately my unmanaged switches have performed as expected. I
> was beginging to worry that I would have to replace them.
>
> I had bought my modem in November from Amazon,and used it on a  200Mbs
> account but it was advertised at 1000Mbs so they were very good about
> taking it back and allowing me to  put the money toward this MOTOROLA
> MB8611 DOCSIS 3.1 Cable Modem with 2.5G Ethernet, Approved for Comcast
> Xfinity Gigabit and More. I won't be using the 2.5G but it will future
> proof it.  Reviews show that people are getting a 1000 plus with this modem
> so it will be interesting to see what my performance is once it arrives.
>
> So the moral of this story is that if you get a 1000Mbs account don't
> assume your hardware is up to the task!
>

Re: [H] 1000Mbs up and 50Mbs down...or is it

[Christopher Fisk]

1000mb here is over $200/mo, I can't justify it when I already have 60mb
"included free" in my rent. (I use quotes around included free because my
rent went up $80/mo when they announced free cable with rent).

It does what I need.

On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 4:04 PM _ Winterlight 
wrote:

> I would never of thought that I would spend the money or even justify a
> need for 1000Mbs internet service but at $75 per month with Sparklight I
> couldn't say no. However, once it was turned on I discovered some realties.
> From the beginning I was not getting more then 400Mbs. So Sparklight
> investigated and sent a tech out but by the time he got here they had fixed
> the problem in the line and the end of my coaxial tested 940Mbs. However,
> the tech pointed out that  my modem can't actually deliver 1000Mps even if
> it was advertised as such my existing Motorola 24x8 Cable Modem, Model
> MB7621, DOCSIS 3.0. Approved by Comcast Xfinity, Cox, Charter Spectrum,
> Time Warner Cable, and More. Downloads 1,000<
> https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B077BL65HS/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1>
> tested at  600 to 800 direct from the modem.
>
> But once it was plugged into my Ubiquity Edge X router all speeds dropped
> from 175 to 400 max. After a few days emailing Ubiquity  support it was
> determined that firmware updates had disabled offload modules and the
> router was governing the speeds. Offloading is used to execute functions of
> the router using the hardware directly, instead of a process of software
> functions. The benefit of offloading in EdgeOS is increased performance and
> throughput by not depending on the CPU for forwarding decisions. So once I
> was back to default settings the router shot up close to what the modem was
> delivering. Fortunately my unmanaged switches have performed as expected. I
> was beginging to worry that I would have to replace them.
>
> I had bought my modem in November from Amazon,and used it on a  200Mbs
> account but it was advertised at 1000Mbs so they were very good about
> taking it back and allowing me to  put the money toward this MOTOROLA
> MB8611 DOCSIS 3.1 Cable Modem with 2.5G Ethernet, Approved for Comcast
> Xfinity Gigabit and More. I won't be using the 2.5G but it will future
> proof it.  Reviews show that people are getting a 1000 plus with this modem
> so it will be interesting to see what my performance is once it arrives.
>
> So the moral of this story is that if you get a 1000Mbs account don't
> assume your hardware is up to the task!
>

[H] 1000Mbs up and 50Mbs down...or is it

[_ Winterlight]

I would never of thought that I would spend the money or even justify a need 
for 1000Mbs internet service but at $75 per month with Sparklight I couldn't 
say no. However, once it was turned on I discovered some realties. From the 
beginning I was not getting more then 400Mbs. So Sparklight investigated and 
sent a tech out but by the time he got here they had fixed the problem in the 
line and the end of my coaxial tested 940Mbs. However, the tech pointed out 
that  my modem can't actually deliver 1000Mps even if it was advertised as such 
my existing Motorola 24x8 Cable Modem, Model MB7621, DOCSIS 3.0. Approved by 
Comcast Xfinity, Cox, Charter Spectrum, Time Warner Cable, and More. Downloads 
1,000
  tested at  600 to 800 direct from the modem.

But once it was plugged into my Ubiquity Edge X router all speeds dropped from 
175 to 400 max. After a few days emailing Ubiquity  support it was determined 
that firmware updates had disabled offload modules and the router was governing 
the speeds. Offloading is used to execute functions of the router using the 
hardware directly, instead of a process of software functions. The benefit of 
offloading in EdgeOS is increased performance and throughput by not depending 
on the CPU for forwarding decisions. So once I was back to default settings the 
router shot up close to what the modem was delivering. Fortunately my unmanaged 
switches have performed as expected. I was beginging to worry that I would have 
to replace them.

I had bought my modem in November from Amazon,and used it on a  200Mbs account 
but it was advertised at 1000Mbs so they were very good about taking it back 
and allowing me to  put the money toward this MOTOROLA MB8611 DOCSIS 3.1 Cable 
Modem with 2.5G Ethernet, Approved for Comcast Xfinity Gigabit and More. I 
won't be using the 2.5G but it will future proof it.  Reviews show that people 
are getting a 1000 plus with this modem so it will be interesting to see what 
my performance is once it arrives.

So the moral of this story is that if you get a 1000Mbs account don't assume 
your hardware is up to the task!