What's the best / fastest cable modem to get ?

[HardwareAddicted]

I am in the market for a cable modem and need to know what the best ones are.

I am in AT&T country and have an RCA one now.

YES, I want external !

YES, I am hooking it up to my SMC barricade.

I found that it needs to be DOCSIS compliant also.

Any direction would be great....thx!

H-A

 

[Jalva]

I'm using motorola and they're pretty good. I heard toshiba is good too.

 

[powaking]

I had a toshiba for the longest time when I was at my parents. Now that I got married I had to setup a new account under my wifes name. They gave me a toshiba PCX1100U and after 1 week it was fried. All 5 lights were solid (the help desk is horrible now. Being handled by outside vendor, no longer internal).

Well, anyway, they had to make a house visit and give me a 3com, the one that looks like a sharks fin. Ungly sob but I find it works a little peppier than the Toshiba.

PS: Sorry, forgot to mention, this is on an AT&T Roadrunner service.

 

[formulav8]

I use Toshiba now after my 3com got stolen. The speed is the same between the two. I think the cable service itself will be the bottleneck before the modem will. Most cable modems are good above 10mbits.

 

[dowxp]

toshiba is good

 

[RU482]

The cheapest DOCSIS modem you can find

 

[Schlocemus]

I used to have Motorola, my friend has RCA and I have Toshiba. I see no difference 🙂

It all depends upon the provider ...