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Re: Motorola
they are doing it, which is why they are telling people with perfectly decent modems that they need replacing (look at my sig).
To be fair though, what they are trying to do in theory is admirable and that is future proof their network. As an example, the modem I have atm can only support 4 downstream channels and the shubs they are dishing out can support 8. 100mbit is 100mbit but if the 4 channels my modem locks on to are congested then I am screwed. With 8 channels you have a greater chance of achieving your max speed because it will load balance across 8 channels instead of 4 and relieve the congestion on each channel.
Now that is with my modem. Without looking your's up I would assume it only has 1 or 2 ds channels and you will be on docsis 1 so with them wanging you up to 20mbit soon (or whatever it is) I am sure you will need a new modem anyways. My terayon tj210 I had back in the days of ntl handled 10mbit just fine but i needed to ring up for a new one when I upgraded to 20mbit and the funny thing is that although you think they know this stuff, they upgraded me without even thinking about it and I had to realise I wasn't getting full speed and ring them up for a new modem. These days they are doing it the other way around and wanting to swap out the modems first.
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