Thread: surfboard 5100
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Old 11-01-2013, 20:18   #10
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Re: surfboard 5100

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The modem can probably only use use one or two downstream channels
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Pardon Sir…but I think you'll find that the Motorola SB's Broadcom BCM 3348 chipset was limited to a single tuner albeit (euro/cable labs) DOCSIS2 certified upto 55mbps downstream (upto 1024QAM) and 30mbps (256QAM with S-CDMA) upstream. However even though quite impressive originally with it's 200MHz 32bit processor it's 2002 legacy architecture is now starting to show it's age and single stream is all you'll get whether your approaching the enemy from the front or enfilading with a rear flanking tactic, albeit good for upto 860MHz!


so how does that differ from what I said other than that you have clarfied that it only uses the one channel?
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