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Originally Posted by cleshe
I had a 120, it was replaced long before the upgrade because it couldn't or wouldn't deliver anything near the 4Mb I was on. It took me 3 months of bellyacheing before they sent out an engineer who changed it, for a 255,and my speeds magically increased. The tech who changed it said that the 120 was basically obsolete as it couldn't accept the latest software.A month before that another tech visted, never even came in , said there was nothing wrong with the modems, just the service generally,and left without doing anything.
At that time there was a posting on this forum showing what accepted what speeds. It went missing some time ago, about the time the "will your modem accept the new speeds" advice page swapped from saying the 120 and 100 needed to be changed for a newer model, to saying they were fine.
Whether they got some software that could accept the upgrade, or just decided it would cost too much to change them all I'll leave with you.
I know my thoughts on the matter.
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It seems some 120's are good, some not so good. I'm still using mine, currently on 4Mb this is the sort of result that is typical:
Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:02:08 GMT
Test 1: 1024K took 2218 ms = 461.7 KB/sec, approx 3804 Kbps,
3.71 Mbps
Test 2: 1024K took 2141 ms = 478.3 KB/sec, approx 3941 Kbps,
3.85 Mbps
Test 3: 1024K took 2187 ms = 468.2 KB/sec, approx 3858 Kbps,
3.77 Mbps
Test 4: 2048K took 4360 ms = 469.7 KB/sec, approx 3870 Kbps,
3.78 Mbps
Overall Average Speed = approx 3868 Kbps,
3.78 Mbps
I usually get a rock-solid 480-490KB/s (3.9Mb)when dowloading from Newsgroups. And when I was on 10Mb in 2005/2006 following the modem software upgrade I used to get newsgroup downloads at a solid 1.2MB/s (9.6Mb)!