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I was thinking about buying a new RCA cable modem. Right now I have this 3+ year old com21 bastard thats slow. Everyone else in my area has theese new fast modems. I called AT&T and they refuse to upgrade me. They said my current modem ethier has to die or I gotta resignup. So I poundered frying my current one and bilieve me I would LOVE to do it, but I am just gonna buy one. My brother-in-law has a new RCA DCM-225 and I don't see it listed here: http://www.rca.com/product/viewmodellist/browseproduct/1,1323,CI305,00.html? . Whats the difference between all of them I can't locate a difference.

Originally posted by iceman3233:
Everyone else in my area has theese new fast modems.

Don't expect a new modem to yield greater performance.

If you do the math, you will probably discover that purchasing a modem won't begin to pay off for another 1.5 or so years.

The RCA225 is sold only to cable companies who then rent them out to customers.

The RCA226 is available to consumers.

As far as speed increase? Its doubtful that a new modem is going to make your speeds improve.

If the modem you have is probably rated at rates far superior to what you are getting. Unlike a dial up phone, there is no 14.4k / 28.8k, 33.6k or 56k versions of cable modems.

All cable modems are capable of faster speeds than you are able to achieve.

When I started 2 weeks ago, we were installing DCM 325 modems using USB conections. Two days later we were told not to use USB and install NICs when possible.
Since then I have not seen any RCA modems, just 3COM. The 3 COMs are good but all the other installers say the RCAs locked quicker, speeding up the install times.

Well, the modem I got right now is a non-DOCSIS pos. I found that I was able to tweak my friends modems WAY faster than mine. From looking at their settings, it looks like they are on a different node or what ever.