Would like to pull the trigger on a CM1000, but looks far too limited for the price. Having a single gigabit port and thus no support for future speed hikes makes it a dubious investment at $180. I live in a rural area outside Nashville and was one of the first people in the Nashville market to upgrade to gigabit/3.1. We are unlikely to get fiber anytime soon but apparently have a well maintained cable infrastructure, so I anticipate we'll continue to see upgrades in speed over the next few years.
For those interested, I can only pull about 820mbps down through a virtualized pfSense router. Comcast provides a free Nighthawk X6 with the rental modem, which can only do gigabit routing with pretty much everything turned off (qos, traffic monitoring, etc). I have yet to hit over 500mbps down in real world usage, nothing else on the Internet seems fast enough.
And here I thought Ubiquiti's 8 port PoE (48V) switch was expensive at roughly $200. A snowball's chance in hell will I pay $270 for an 8 port PoE switch.
You say that the CM1000 is supported by Xfinity, Cox and Time Warner, but the Amazon page you link to says "Not cerified for Charter or TWC" Can you confirm the support for Time Warner?
I purchased a CM1000 to use with TWC/Charter, and online activation doesn't work for me: http://i.imgur.com/PP1lQXi.png. I haven't spoken to a rep yet because the CM1000 isn't on the approved modem list.
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abhaxus - Thursday, January 5, 2017 - link
Would like to pull the trigger on a CM1000, but looks far too limited for the price. Having a single gigabit port and thus no support for future speed hikes makes it a dubious investment at $180. I live in a rural area outside Nashville and was one of the first people in the Nashville market to upgrade to gigabit/3.1. We are unlikely to get fiber anytime soon but apparently have a well maintained cable infrastructure, so I anticipate we'll continue to see upgrades in speed over the next few years.For those interested, I can only pull about 820mbps down through a virtualized pfSense router. Comcast provides a free Nighthawk X6 with the rental modem, which can only do gigabit routing with pretty much everything turned off (qos, traffic monitoring, etc). I have yet to hit over 500mbps down in real world usage, nothing else on the Internet seems fast enough.
Ninhalem - Thursday, January 5, 2017 - link
And here I thought Ubiquiti's 8 port PoE (48V) switch was expensive at roughly $200. A snowball's chance in hell will I pay $270 for an 8 port PoE switch.unrulycow - Thursday, January 5, 2017 - link
You say that the CM1000 is supported by Xfinity, Cox and Time Warner, but the Amazon page you link to says "Not cerified for Charter or TWC" Can you confirm the support for Time Warner?ashraj - Friday, January 6, 2017 - link
I purchased a CM1000 to use with TWC/Charter, and online activation doesn't work for me: http://i.imgur.com/PP1lQXi.png. I haven't spoken to a rep yet because the CM1000 isn't on the approved modem list.Theoretically Charter isn't supposed to take more than three weeks to approve new modems (https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-1... but it doesn't seem like anyone is enforcing that.