how/why?

hes in korea

highest i ever gotten on extreme was 5mpbs :heckno:

If you are with telus how long does the switch usually take?
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shaw told me to use the terago speed test

got my cisco wifi modem today!! wooo

Did you have the other one before? The guy's coming on Thursday to install. How did you request the Cisco one?

i had the motorola surf modem.

i got it sent to me.

Cool. I'll see what the tech brings. He's also installing the homephone which I hope can just use the same coax cable by splitting without needing to drill or mount another.

^ the home phone doesnt use coaxial cables

thinking of getting home phone too. I heard it uses bandwidth?
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Isn't it a Coax cable from Shaw that connects to a Docsis modem with telephone outputs?

It doesn't affect your bandwidth. Something about different channels I can't remember.

the coaxial cable x amount is dedicated to home phone x amount is dedicated to tv and x amount is dedicated to internet.. so whether u have it or not makes no difference

you can still use the same coaxial outlet unless the technician plans on putting the phone terminal somewhere else.. you can always request them to use the same outlet

from the wall to the terminal, it uses a coaxial cable

it doesn't use bandwidth from your cable or internet

Awesome. They're coming to install it tomorrow. Guess I should go buy a regular home phone lol.

Install done. Took about 30min. for provisioning. Glad they gave me the Cisco modem right off the bat.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1610890228.png

whoops, sorry u r right, i was thinking of the cable from the terminal to the in wall phone line distribution block, that one isnt coaxial for sure.

I upgraded to shaw 100 during the summer and got that terrible technet router/modem. Can I just call up shaw tech support and request the vastly superior cisco modem?

You should be able to if it's the modem giving you grief. They currently use SMC and Cisco. But I've heard the Cisco is the one to get. Do any of you have your Cicso in bridge mode? Or is it not necessary as long as I've got different IP's and DHCP ranges for the Cisco and the Router?

EDIT: Got the modem flashed to bridge mode only. Everything working perfectly now with my original dlink

what model is the Cisco modem that they have?

edit: nevmind i see it in the thread

was thinking of upgrading from extreme to broadband50

about 5$ extra for first 3 months and then its like 78$-84$

the new wifi modem looks cool

anyone have any feedback?

I like most ppl didn't want to use the routing/wireless features of the modem/router cause it's very basic and doesn't work as well as my standalone dlink. However if you currently don't have a router or just a very basic one the bundled should be ok.

any more info on flashing the modem? i'm getting mine on tues and i don't know which one they're giving me. so i guess bridge mode is not a feature offered in the admin page?

I called shaw to disable the router feature on the Cisco router.