SB4100 Will do full 10mbit!!! :-)

[MadMatteh]

Today my SB4100 cable modem rebooted, and hey presto! 10mbit .

It was previously stuck at around 5-6mbit.

I hope this will come as a relief to other SB4100 owners.

[Mauldor]

Well I was sure before that a SB4100 should be able to do 10mbit anyhow as it has a 10/100 port and the specs rate it upto 38mbit anyhow. So i rebooted modem and def have the new Firmware on the modem but the speeds are the same as they were before. The router I have def has 10/100mbit so thats not it, i am guessing either they have not "tweaked" my end yet or everyone in my area is downloading something to test the new speeds out.

Ill leave it a day or so - see what happens

[Jon T]

i'm very glad to hear it, i've seen a lot of the newer NTL cable modems and don't think they compare anywhere near my SB4100

[PDM]

Downloading @ 9.5Mb from today with SB4100

[Mauldor]

If anything for me - getting slower as the night goes on....

[MadMatteh]

Originally Posted by Mauldor

If anything for me - getting slower as the night goes on....

:-(


Have you tried downloading from a server with a seriously uber connection, like a microsoft update server or something?. Just to make sure.....or maybe the area you are in has a lot of people using the NTL network??

[Mauldor]

Originally Posted by MadMatteh

:-(


Have you tried downloading from a server with a seriously uber connection, like a microsoft update server or something?. Just to make sure.....or maybe the area you are in has a lot of people using the NTL network??

Just to keep you Updated as to what happened, I rang TS and they checked my UBR and it was at max Capacity with people downloading. This made sense as people are getting 10mbit and then the first thing they do is download something, see its not 10mbit and then keep trying thus flooding the network. They advised me that I should get no lower then 2mbit in speed even if everyone was downloading (Traffic Shaping??). Eventually though she moved me to a Different UBR I think and my Speeds went upto 10mbit straight away, the slowest it was that night was 900K/Sec.

This was pretty much short lived though as the next night (6pm) it was all over the place again sometimes as low as 30k/sec and this was from my NTL Homepage - so in effect never leaving the NTL Network. My educated guess is that once the Novelity of 10mbit has worn off with everyone, the network will settle down and so will the speeds.

[jtwn]

I think they would of changed your upstream channel, as changing ubr would physically mean moving a cable.

[Mauldor]

Originally Posted by jtwn

I think they would of changed your upstream channel, as changing ubr would physically mean moving a cable.

Ahh sorry thats what she did, the channel - all she basically said was that the channel I was on was maxed out (high Usage) and the other channel although still a lot on should be better, which it was for that night. Is this the same as me changing the channel on my SB4100 (1,2,3) - cos I tried that myself before calling and never seen any difference.

Odd thing was - before any mention of 10mbit, my area was pretty quiet as a lot of people around here that I have spoken to are on BT rather then Cable (as we can get both). On my 2mbit before (and 3mbit) it was constant al the time, since the 10mbit upgrade its been litterly all over the place, as low as 30k, 2mbit some of the time, the odd 3mbit etc.

[Bambi]

Originally Posted by Mauldor

So i rebooted modem and def have the new Firmware on the modem but the speeds are the same as they were before.

What is the 'new' firmware version?

I have SB4110-4.0.6-SCM-NOSHELL and am only getting 5Mb.

Found these version on t'interweb

SB4100-4.0.6-SCM-NOSHELL.hex.bin
SB4100-4.0.9-SCM07-NOSHELL.hex.bin
SB4100-4.0.12-SCM05-NOSHELL.hex.bin
SB4100-0.4.4.0-SCM06-NOSH.hex.bin
SB4100-0.4.4.2-SCM01-NOSH.hex.bin
SB4100-0.4.4.3-SCM01-NOSH.hex.bin

I know its probably totaly against the TAC/AUP to use your own firmware as Motorolla only release firmwares to ISP's. Just out of cunriosity, is the 'new' 10mb firmware one of these?

[StuS]

When I rebooted the other day it upgraded to 'SB4100-0.4.9.4-SCM02-NOSH', but I'm having a few problems with it. If I go to a specific website and look at their forum, 50% of the time I get:

HFC: T4 Timer Expired
Received Response to Broadcast Maintenance Request, but no Unicast Maint
Received Async Error Range Failed
HFC: Shutting Downstream Down

and it reboots

Didn't happen before the upgrade

It happens very occasionally on other websites too, but never during gaming etc

[jtwn]

Originally Posted by Mauldor

Ahh sorry thats what she did, the channel - all she basically said was that the channel I was on was maxed out (high Usage) and the other channel although still a lot on should be better, which it was for that night. Is this the same as me changing the channel on my SB4100 (1,2,3) - cos I tried that myself before calling and never seen any difference. *

Pretty sure changing the channel cm side does not work anymore , moreso because the upstream frequency does not change either when altered.

[Bambi]

I have just rebooted my modem for the n'th time since being upgraded to 10Mb, and I now have the 'SB4100-0.4.9.4-SCM02-NOSH' firmware.
Did a quick dl test during my lunchbreak and managed to get a steady 780k/sec peaking at 860-900 from my news server.
I'll have a poke about M$ or Suse websites later for a nice fat file to dl at speed.

Out of interest, has anyone noticed a speed diff with using the SB4100 connected to a 100Mb LAN card or to a 10Mb router uplink port?

May have to test that after work...

[africanshox]

how do you find out what firmware you have...is there a way...please help????

[Mauldor]

To find out Cable Modem Firware pop this in your Browser:

http://192.168.100.1/mainhelp.html

Press the HELP Tab and you will get this:

Software Version: SB4100-0.4.9.4-SCM02-NOSH
Hardware Version: 0
MIB Version: II
GUI Version: 1.0
VxWorks Version: 5.3