[steveuk19]

Hi
I've got a cable modem being installed next week, but I'm now wondering whether I need it because I'm getting 4mb on a Pace STB.

My question is, is there a performance advantage to having a separate cable modem for the internet and an STB for the digital TV, or shall I just cancel the cable modem? I'm in West London, btw, for those keeping track of the rollout.

I've read that Pace boxes aren't supposed to handle more than 1mb, but here are my figures after the upgrade from 2mb that happened the other day. (I've had a couple of Pace boxes and they've both have been able to handle the upgrades from 512 > 1mb > 2mb, although the TV picture sometimes blacks for a second when downloading heavily)

iEPG: 4.1 b79
Hardware type: DiTV 1000+
Hardware version: P1 b4
Software: 3_2_P22N_P_P1000+R

Speakeasy Bandwidth Test Results:
Download:3783 kbps (472.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload: 348 kbps (43.5 KB/sec transfer rate)

Cheers
Steve

(Hope I'm not shooting myself in the foot with any of this!)