Is the Motorola SB5101 Cable Modem the product of false advertising?

Question

I bought one of these modems without noticing the bottom of the package states that the max download speed is 3Mbps, upload is a little less than 300kbps. I'm looking for something over 6Mbps for downloading. However, some places like Best Buy and CompUsa advertise this modem can download up to 30Mbps! 3Mbps should be 3Mbps, Right? On top of that a sales person said it can upload up to 30Mbps since it doesn't slow down, which seems like nonsense to me. How does 300kbps suddently become 30Mbps? Last time I remember looking at the definitions 300KB=300000 30MB=30Million

Seems to me like this is just false advertising. Am I missing something?

Answer 1

Well according to Motorola's web site.

http://broadband.motorola.com/consumers/...

The unit can do 30mbs if your cable company uses DOCSIS 2.0.  Not all cable companies use that and some may never!

The actual speed you really get all depends on what speed your cable company set you up to receive.

Answer 2

i have a 1 year old sb5101on comcast cable and get great speeds, using a 40 mile test into sprint in chicago

down 12,000 mb/sec [thats megabits, not megaBytes] plus and up 1200 to 1500 mb/sec up. tested via dslreports.com

Remember compusa is dead and geeks dont know all.

the real specs

http://broadband.motorola.com/consumers/...

my part number  is 515291-001 but i would need to check the internal modem bios

i just tested @  http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest?flas...

and got 20455 down and 1049 up & latency of 12  to sprint in chicago

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