motorola sb4100 vs sb5100

saimike

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i'm using rcn's 10mbps/800kbps service, and the tech guy who came to install tried to sell me the sb5100. i declined cos i already own a sb4100. after installing it, dslreports/speakeasy is telling me i'm getting ~3mbps/700kbps. the downlink seems a bit on the low side, and i'm wondering if its due to the sb4100.

anyone know the diiff between the sb4100 and sb5100? motorola.com doesnt seem to do a good job of keeping stuff for their legacy products.

whats the max downlink for the sb4100? what docsis rev does it do?
 

Goosemaster

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I have the 4100 and I get he 4Mbps that Comcast sends me if that matters.

That said, msot of these things can handle 20Mbps+, so I am inclined to believe that somethign else is at fault.


Mind pinging and tracerouting google.com and posting the results?
 

saimike

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C:\>ping www.google.com

Pinging www.l.google.com [64.233.161.99] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 64.233.161.99: bytes=32 time=60ms TTL=244
Reply from 64.233.161.99: bytes=32 time=60ms TTL=244
Reply from 64.233.161.99: bytes=32 time=60ms TTL=244
Reply from 64.233.161.99: bytes=32 time=60ms TTL=244

Ping statistics for 64.233.161.99:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 60ms, Maximum = 60ms, Average = 60ms

C:\>tracert www.google.com

Tracing route to www.l.google.com [64.233.161.99]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <10 ms <10 ms 10 ms 192.168.23.1
2 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms 172.30.120.1
3 10 ms 10 ms 20 ms vl2.aggr1.chgo.il.rcn.net [207.229.191.129]
4 10 ms 20 ms 10 ms ge0-0-2.core2.chsl.il.rcn.net [207.172.19.43]
5 10 ms 10 ms 71 ms ge5-0.border1.eqnx.il.rcn.net [207.172.19.15]
6 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms core1-2-2-0.ord.net.google.com [206.223.119.21]

7 10 ms 10 ms <10 ms 216.239.46.1
8 10 ms 10 ms 60 ms 64.233.175.94
9 20 ms 40 ms 30 ms 64.233.175.97
10 30 ms 30 ms 21 ms 66.249.94.68
11 40 ms 40 ms 100 ms 66.249.94.99
12 60 ms 60 ms 60 ms 216.239.48.193
13 61 ms 70 ms 120 ms 216.239.46.33
14 80 ms 90 ms 60 ms 216.239.47.149
15 60 ms 70 ms 60 ms 216.239.49.246
16 80 ms 71 ms 120 ms 64.233.161.99

Trace complete.