How to Swap Out a Time Warner Modem With Your Own Faster One

Re:How to Swap Out a Time Warner Modem With Your Own Faster One by wmf on Saturday January 18, 2014 @08:37PM (#7083053)

OTOH, rented modems get bursting and owned modems don't, so you may see lower speeds. In general, getting the speed you pay for is an orthogonal issue from renting vs. buying the modem. If you're on a high-end plan (as it appears the author is) TWC should have given you a 3.0 modem already. If not, it should be free to swap modems.

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Re:How to Swap Out a Time Warner Modem With Your Own Faster One by dfc on Saturday January 18, 2014 @09:05PM (#7083111)

> rented modems get bursting and owned modems don't

Can you elaborate? I went out and bought a TWC approved modem instead of renting from TWC. I always thought the service I received would be the the same. Is this a firmware thing?

I was actually writing a munin plugin for my SB6141 when I saw this.

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Re:How to Swap Out a Time Warner Modem With Your Own Faster One by johne20 on Saturday January 18, 2014 @09:00PM (#7083099)

Where did you read/hear that? And is that a TWC specific issue or does it apply to Comcast as well?

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Re:How to Swap Out a Time Warner Modem With Your Own Faster One by wmf on Saturday January 18, 2014 @09:46PM (#7083184)

I've only paid attention to TWC since I use them. It's been semi-officially confirmed on DSLReports and I noticed it myself.

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