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Originally Posted by ianch99
I am not sure they meant 12 d/s channel for the shub, rather it referred to the number of available downstream channel frequencies.
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I think they have made more channels available in the bonding group so that the cmts can load balance across more channels. As an example. over the last 2 years we have seen bonding groups increase in size from 4, to 5, 6, 7 and 8 channels as VM have been trying to increase capacity and reduce congestion. Even though 8 channels may have been available in my area, when I was on my vmng300 it could only use 4 channels and sometimes they were 1, 2, 3 and 4 and other times it was 1, 2, 5 and 6.
Shub's can only use 8 channels so up and till now shub's have sort of been ahead of the game and been able to fully utilise whatever has been made available to it. As VM haven't provided us with 16 channels modems yet, I think the temporary fix is to make more channels available so instead of locking onto the same 8 congested channels, there are other less congested channels available (as in the case of my vmng300). So now instead of using channels 1-8 all the time, you might use 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 12 as an example.