FIOS is offering a 300/60 package up here, seems like a test market thing.  I am jelly as hell im not in a FIOS zone.

For them to offer that speed they would need to bond 8 downlink channels, I dunno if there are any cable modems out that will support that.

"I am jelly as hell im not in a FIOS zone."
why?  because you'd have to get it?

If you subscribe to the Blast or Ultra speed tiers (formerly 25 and 50 connection, respectively), power cycle your modem to pick up the new bootfile and you'll be slurping down packets twice as fast as before!

Wouldn't you need a modem that can bond to 8 down streams of DOCSIS 3.0 luvin' (Dunno the actual technical jargon) to get the faster speeds?  Would a SB6120 be capable of that?

I'm just on the standard plan, but I cycled my modem anyway to see what would happen. I know factors can change results in the space of a second, but this is what I got between two runs to Harrisburg.



Seems I've actually gotten about a 3-4meg boost. Dunno if it's because I moved up the street a bit and am actually closer to a green box than before, but the increase in speed IS there. My up speed has been higher, though. No hate.

ZX, your logic is a bit flawed here. Firstly, I kind of doubt that your speeds are still at 22/5. That may have been what you signed up for originally, but I'm pretty sure that's not what you have currently (speeds get bumped up all the time). If you want to PM me your cable modem's MAC address (the RF MAC) I can lookup which bootfile you have loaded onto your modem and see what speeds you're currently assigned.

Secondly, the number of channels bonded is based upon the settings in your modem's bootfile. So if you're subscribed to a service that only required 4 channels to bond then that's all you're going to get. Just because you get an SB6180 (which supports 8 channel bonding), doesn't mean it will bond 8 channels and give you extra speed. Where the 8 channel bonding will come into play is when you are subscribed to a service that uses 8 channels, e.g., the 305/65 service when it is launched. For example when the 50Mb service was the top speed offered, even though the SB6120 modem supports 4 channel bonding only 3 channels were bonded at first. That has now been moved to 4 channel bonding, but it illustrates my point.

If you want to take a look at your modem status page, just go to http://192.168.100.1 and your modem's status page will come up. On Moto modems it's under the "Signal" page.

Edit: Something else that might be affecting your numbers on performance tests that I discovered when D3 first launched and I was a tester for it, there are some anti-virus programs that screw with the way the numbers are interpreted. Some AV programs I tested would limit to 30Mb no matter what, and others had them spiking ridiculously high. Try disabling your AV and seeing if you get the same results.

PM'ed.

I had these speeds from the get go, the dude who installed it asked me to run a speedtest and stumbled a bit when he saw this:



The upstream speed dropped a bit once I got my own modem instead of the one they gave me, but its been this way since the start.

i must say, blue ridge cable is a joke when it comes to speeds