thextreme1 Posted March 8, 2006 CID Share Posted March 8, 2006 Hi, I am new to the forums. Just found them last night and was looking through some posts and found one that was interesting. One that said he went and bought a Surfboard Modem, model SB5120 and it increased his speed. Well, curious, I went to Walmart today and picked up one of these for $59.99. Came home and went through the process with Mediacom to get it to work. My scores last night were around 2.5Mbps down and 17Kb up. The first thing I did when we got the modem working is come here to test the speeds and here are the results: :::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 4573 Kbps about 4.6 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB) Download Speed is:: 558 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net (server1) Test Time:: 2006/03/08 - 3:08pm Bottom Line:: 82X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 1.84 sec Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 39.89 % faster than the average for host (mchsi.com) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-X3OKF5AG8 I must have tested 50 times last night, always getting different results but they were always around 2-3 Mbits per second and always 17Kb per second for upload. Needless to say, with the change over on the cable modem I almost doubled my speed. I was using the Linksys before, cant remember the exact model number but it ended in a 10. Unreal the difference a cable modem can make, I have been limiting my upload/download speeds ever since I got cable internet 5 years ago, all because of the modem. I would suggest to anyone out there that has a linksys or other brand to upgrade to this Surfboard modem. If it doesnt work, you can always take it back to your local Walmart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blunted Posted March 8, 2006 CID Share Posted March 8, 2006 i use the sb5120 also cause it was needed to get the speeds i have now and my old 1 couldnt do it. i think my old 1 was the 4200 i'm not sure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thextreme1 Posted March 9, 2006 Author CID Share Posted March 9, 2006 My upload test for 3MB just came back at 31KBps, about 7KB over average. Not sure what the difference is, but I love it. Anyone know if Mediacom has it capped at 5Mbps? In alot of my download tests I am getting 5.6Mbps. Not that I mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDavis Posted March 13, 2006 CID Share Posted March 13, 2006 Ive been using the MOT SB5100 since I first got cable a couple years ago and have seen speeds on average around 4.6 ive seen 5.1 and 5.2 a few times while testing Ive went over to DSLreports and tested there a couple times worthless to say the least claiming 3.5 or so but when ive tested other places and even overseas tests i got 4.1 or 4.2 The Crappy Used stuff Mediacomm charges people to use is worthless like a few of their employees Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EremiticWolf Posted May 31, 2006 CID Share Posted May 31, 2006 :::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 26670 Kbps about 26.67 Mbps (tested with 12160 kB) Download Speed is:: 3256 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net (Server 2) Test Time:: 2006/05/31 - 3:50pm Bottom Line:: 465X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 0.31 sec Tested from a 12160 kB file and took 3.735 seconds to complete Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1) Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 950.83 % faster than the average for host (118.58) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-7BNY4TAWJ :::.. Upload Stats ..::: Connection is:: 249 Kbps about 0.25 Mbps (tested with 386 kB) Upload Speed is:: 30 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net (Server 2) Test Time:: 2006/05/31 - 3:53pm Bottom Line:: 4X faster than 56K 1MB Upload in 34.13 sec Tested from a 386 kB file and took 12.7056 seconds to complete Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1) Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 94.53 % faster than the average for host (118.58) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-SDHBYT0OL Upload isn't very good. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted May 31, 2006 CID Share Posted May 31, 2006 EremiticWolf welcome to the forum. what is your advertised speed. because those look cached. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EremiticWolf Posted May 31, 2006 CID Share Posted May 31, 2006 Think it was around 5MB download, 256 upload. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted May 31, 2006 CID Share Posted May 31, 2006 Think it was around 5MB download, 256 upload. well if it is 5mbps/256kbps then your results are cached. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Relorian Posted June 9, 2006 CID Share Posted June 9, 2006 Mediacom's started running ad's for their 10/1 Max service round here which i find rather funny considering the trouble they have even keeping the 5/256 running. Anyway topics like this have been around forever and supprisingly enough it does work... of course the tech support people hate it when you ask them about it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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