Unboxing: UniFi Cable Modem (UCI)
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0:00 Intro
0:06 Why buy your own Modem?
1:36 Unboxing
3:20 Rack Install
3:33 Initial Setup
4:53 Activation with Xfinity
5:28 Mac Addresse(s)
5:56 UniFi OS
7:14 Should you buy the UCI?
10:04 Outro
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Even though DOCSIS 4.0 is not widely available, I’m kinda surprised that a modem launching this late in 2023 doesn’t support it yet.
Or for that matter the decade old spec for high-split, and 1.2GHz down. I know it takes years to get your first design through the CableLabs gauntlet, but this is just stupid.
Manufacturers are limited by the availability of chipsets and DOCSIS 4.0 chipsets may not be available (at all or in quantity) to meet the manufacturers requirements.
Ubiquiti always seems to lag behind. I mean they don't even have a UniFi Cloud gateway that supports 2.5gbe clients yet, even though they have the U7 Pro APs with 2.5Gbe uplink. Makes 0 sense.
@@Starwarsgames66 They're coming out with a gateway that has SFP28 LAN/WAN, yet I don't recall Ubiquiti selling an SFP28 switch.
Great. Just need one for Fiber now
You all are the first to have a review! Thank you!
Wish this had SFP+ ports. That would have been great to have. DOCSIS 4.0 is starting to become mainstream so hopefully they will have that in the near future.
Docsis 4.0 isn’t a thing yet. Nobody has it outside of some field testing that Comcast and Cox have been doing this year. Comcast made press releases about it last year saying it was going to be deployed in some places about now but so far, that has not happened.
Yeah, concerned about future longevity of a product that doesn’t have changeable ports sfp+ and is this limited to version three of the cable spec or can it do the brand new version four after an update?
Will 4.0 be software upgradable or will it new hardware be required?
I haven’t read the literature on 4.0 yet…
More like it needs to have a SFP port so you can put fiber between your cable modem and router to electrically isolate it.
@@Sevenfeet0 They've deployed the modems and 2G DL plans, but thus far they're limiting UL to 200Mbps from what I can tell. @JonesersRX7 They make you rent their modem/router combo for it. No 3rd party hardware out yet. Can't post links here, but just google "comcast docsis 4.0" and the article about it will be the first hit in the search.
The big advantage I see is this is the only rack mount Cable Modem on the market, that I can think of. I hope we see others.
And getting to decide for yourself when your modem updates, can’t tell ya the number of times I was in the middle of something to have my internet cut out and find out the dmn Xfinity gateway was updating.
I’m not sure there is enough to man, considering everything is going for her object
Comcast business modems which are all in one devices are rack mountable
There are tons of modems in the business space that are rack-moutable. That's the norm really. You don't see them for home users because home users don't have racks.
@@metalmanexetreme This won't change that situation at-all. Your ISP has access to your modem's config while it's connected to their network. They can change the provisioning on the fly, whenever they'd like.
I hope that Vodafone Germany will also support this in our country soon. I will order the modem immediately. I currently have the TC4400
An RPS connection would have been nice hopefully in a future update. I will definitely be looking at this to my UniFi equipment. I just RMA a UDM Pro SE that the power failure reboot freezing issue (Yes I do have it connected to a UPS). UniFi was nice enough to send the replacement unit first.
Pulled my Mac off the box. Everything went well. Activated in 10 min. No issues adopting into Dream Machine either.
I ran into a youtube video about a year ago that COX comm was testing this modem and they even had the pictures so I knew what it was going to look like about a year ago. I make a habit of checking the UI store daily first thing I arrive at my job and saw it 0n sale; I hit that purchase button faster than anything. Few months later and I'm loving it still, only time will tell how long it lasts.
Sweet! I just discovered the cable modem from Ubiquiti and have Comcast/Xfinity residential.
I do like the idea of a modem with more than one downlink port so you can test outside of your network where problem might exist.
Imagine unify priced things appropriately. No way in hell docsis 3.1 with no sfp+ is worth $300. Had my cm1200 for many years. Very good for $110
Bought mine on release day. Sitting on my bench. Will install tomorrow. Looking forward to it 😊
Have you installed it? If so, any issues so far and who is your provider?
@@MooseTurder Installed it, called my ISP (Charter) to change the MAC address, worked flawlessly. No issues at all. Perfect easy setup and perfect Internet!
My next modem will need to support docsis 4 and be approved for Xfinity's increased upload speeds. Especially at that cost. Hopefully Xfinity can be convinced to certify the upload speeds on this unit but, knowing Xfinity, I'm not going to hold my breath.
Great content! Please Please do more. I installed a Talk system for a client because of your vids. You should do clarification on their locked vs unlocked phones. Other vids I would be interested in; quick vids on what’s new on console and gateway updates, the connect series, and more talk vids.
Very awesome. When and IF i move out of my folks place in the future I will totally grab this sucker along with a switch and access point. :)
You just earned my follow after you mentioned SWFL. Great video !!!
Since my only choice is Cable for gigabit right now this will be a good addition to the rack that has all my other Ubiquiti gear in it.
I need this, also the commercial with the reference to Silicon Valley I'm going to be a long life customer.
Here in North Texas, we have fiber. I use Frontier, and there is an ONT Box that I had to pay for, but I own it. From the ONT, I plug directly into the dream machine. I had never had such reliable internet until I did this setup! I want to say almost four years now with 98-99% uptime. I used to have a cloud key, gen2, but I wouldn't recommend that. " Lots of restarts/lost adoptions of equipment." It is just a pain to deal with.
I've had this idea. I dont know too much about coaxial internet, but i would like to know if it's possible my preferred solution in my head would be a managed switch with an sfp+ port with a module designed for coax you just plug it in connect to the cable and thats your up-link
It's worth mentioning (as I discovered today while setting mine up) that the UCI will ONLY adopt on certain Unifi Routers, and does not support Self-hosted controllers at this time.
This looks like it's designed to be a Internet back up option in case of main connection failure.
I agree odd it doesn't have sfp+ or 10g RJ.
Great video! Just like all your videos.
The reliability here in Toronto has been excellent from Rogers using their latest-gen modem. I have had mine for two full years with no issues on a 24x7x365 basis.
Are you talking about using the Ubiquiti's modem? Or Roger's modem?
@@MrGib17 The Rogers modem. I also have a tv service and since they use an encrypted VPN for the TV with the encryption keys managed by the modem, I must keep it in service.
That’s 🧢 dude, I have Rogers as well and the service is terrible. The knocked out half of Canadas internet and infrastructure like 2 years ago the ISP monopoly in Canada needs to be gone and should be similar to the US
Gotta love backwoods multigig hillbilly fibre😊.
The next day 😂. Thank you for the explanation.
Mine works like a charm!
Another good reason not to use the cable companies device is to prevent double NAT and SIP ALG issues. Even when the cable company says they aren't NAT'ing your traffic and play and/or are dumb when it comes to SIP ALG.
I am a little dubious of the adoption of devices on the outside of the firewall. I know Unifi patched an issue recently around this recently. But the idea of it makes me uncomfortable. If it is easy it probably isn't secure as it can be.
Does this do Bridge Mode to pass through the comcast IP to the SG or firewall?
you ar so lucky....
in belgium is it mostly not posible to use you own modem.
we need to use the junk from the isp
Great job. Hoping the get certification in Canada. I highly doubt our isp will allow it though
Hey, Docsis engineer here from the Netherlands, following your awesome channel. Certification is not really a issue, if your ISP allowed own modem on the network (here in NL we have to do because of goverment regulation) the modem will work, since it Docsis standard. For NL the Unifi would mostly work now, but i see HF spectrum issues (it runs 5-85 Mhz, and our US split will go to 204 Mhz soon, and DS runs to 1004 Mhz where our plants already go to 1200 Mhz and move to 1800 Mhz soon. So for now it will run, in the future i may not use all the available spectrum, Unifi could have done a bit better here, but hence i like that they step in the gap nobody did)
Just as a PSA: Comcast business will not let you use a static ip address with the ubiqiti UCI. Residential is able to from what I've read.
For the pricepoint I'd expect to see sfp+ and possibly even MOCA with optional extenders.
Very much a missed opportunity here, and hopefully ubiquity releases a revised model.
Hey - nice watch strap on your apple watch - do you know where you got it from? I'd like to buy one.
if you have fiber most isps make you get whats called as a pond modem which takes the fiber allows the isp to assign a wavelink and converts it to ethernet
I am dying to get my hands on one of these but since Comcast Business won’t allow us to have a self owned modem and keep your static addresses I am stuck renting. I cannot give up my /28 of public space.
I'm not sure why he said gigabit over coax is a lie. Spectrum offers 1g async down for residential; soon, they'll be changing plant to support sync speeds. With DOCSIS 4, they'll be able to offer like 10.
Exactly, I hsd to go bsck to a spectrum modem, but it had a 2.5 gig port and now I am getting around 1.2 gig down.
cool I didnt know this existed until I stumbled across this.
My ISP provides ONT if you request one during installation and then you can using PPPoE credentials via correct VLAN connect directly bypassing ISP's modem. That's another option without separate modem
Some of the coax cable internet providers (the big ones) are moving to full symmetrical connection, meaning the upload and download speeds are the same.
Yeap, using high-split and/or D4.0 FDX (not really a thing yet)... things this expensive shiny cannot do.
I would love to get this modem however Xfinity/Comcast as not yet "approved/certified" it for the higher upload speeds in areas that have received the mid-split upgrade and have OFDMA carrier active. At the moment the only stand alone modem option with 2.5gb ethernet is the coda56, which is what I ended up getting. The CM3000 is also listed but the Netgear has yet to release it.
Will this device be updated to work outside of the United States? And will the DOCSIS standard be upgraded to 4.0 via software update?
Spectrum at the moment only allows for residential connections and not business connection. I believe it has something to doing with the ability to purchase static IP on a business account. On my residential connection I've notice that my ip only changes when I either there is a new MAC address connecting to Surfboard S33 or there was a long term outage. I use a dynamic dns for wireguard VPN connection.
It's weird because, even with Spectrum's new business modem, scripting for the static is only done on the router. So, even if you don't want to utilize it for routing capabilities, you still need their router in bridged mode.
@@JRansom02thanks for the explanation. I can also see why spectrum would want their equipment on the premise for reliability etc. Any news about the high split upgrade coming to your area? I'm located in the Youngstown, OH area so I would imagine we would be some of the last ones to get the upgrade. In certain areas we have at&t and the cable company Armstrong rolling out FTTH.
I keep hearing the high split is coming in spring for our area from my contacts. I'm just north of you in the Lake and Ashtabula County area.
AT&T is moving to FTTH in a lot of Lake. They have less of a presence in Ashtabula and Geneva. In those counties, Windstream's Kinetics division is pushing FTTH very heavily.
@@JRansom02 Your very close then I think we maybe in the same region then. I'm really on the fence about getting the UCI. If there could be confirmation that it will be compatible with the high split coming I would be all for it. Spectrum has no competition here in the village that I reside in. We have century link but they only offer 10meg DSL at one point I was looking for a failover ISP so the system has a back up. I do have the at&t failover unit but with only 1gig available it doesn't last long if there is an outage.
The big question is, is there any benefit to use the expensive unifi modem or ist it only that u can rackmount it? if that is all than definitly not worth it
Thanks for the review. I almost didn't watch your "unboxing" video because unboxing videos are stupid. I'm glad you did a full setup and review. Great video, bad title.
DOCSIS 3.1 supports 10G down and 1G up, even if Comcast doesn't do it yet. They may one day, or at least symmetrical 1G
Actually, the best D3.1 can do is about 7/2. And this thing is limited to 85MHz up and (108-1002) down, so it could reach 7 down, but not remotely 2 up.
Seems like a bad UX to not provide the modem WAN MAC address in the app. Many other device makers include the WAN MAC in the UP for easy copying and pasting.
Hi. I was wondering if ubiquity make a fiber modem as well?
Do you have a signal level page found on other modems?
Hmm, how are they not targeting all biz first. Like no support for cox biz?
Does it have a fan or is it fanless?
I hope Ubiquiti will release a VDSL modem in the future
Doubtful, their solution for that is UniFi Talk.
Just activated mine last night with Spectrum residential. So far, so good. Would not activate via the spectrum activation link. I had to call up and give them the mac address displayed on the display screen.
I’ve done the same for spectrum but my speed now is limit to 1Mbps. Did you have any issues?
@@rd806 Everyone in my area is experiencing issues with Spectrum right now. Something about a node in our area. Besides that I'm getting like 900M down and 40M up. I'm on the 1G down and 40M up plan.
No additional security options? 😢
Is spectrum in the north east states the only ISP not charging a modem tax?
If it has SFP+ that would be great. The crappy part, comcast charges $30 for unlimited data if you want to use your own modem.
starlink is just PoE+ wan connector. get an adaptor to convert their cable to standard rj45.
UCI needs to add a WAN MAC cloning feature so you can just use the WAN MAC ID of your existing cable modem. Then you shouldn’t have to activate the device with your cabke company.
Seriously, I was just about to come and comment "why not clone your surfboard's MAC address?". If that's not possible that's just wild!
Such a feature would never be permitted as per the DOCSIS ratification process. If you take a moment to think about what it is you're asking for, such a feature would lead to easy theft of service as how you could just go searching the web for leaked MAC addresses of provisioned modems. Find one on the same cable provider headend and all you'd have to do is clone it to get free service. Nevermind the administrative nightmare this would create for the ISP having to now consider the possibility of misappropriated MAC IDs on the DOCSIS network.
@@chrislex2598The MAC should be associated with your physical connection to their network. You can't clone a MAC from NYC and use it in LA for free service.
Last time I provisioned a new modem on Comcast, I cloned the WAN interface MAC on the gateway, not the cable modem MAC. They didn't care about the CM MAC only the port the modem was connected to.
@@chrislex2598 I also did clone the MAC address of my gateway using Open WRT in the past. I didn't need to talk to Comcast to provision it. Maybe Comcast needs both the Modem's MAC and the gateway's MAC?
Any news on an ADSL modem option?
DOCSIS 3.1 is actually up to 10gig rx. Single gigabit rx is DOCSIS 3.0
I have voice with Comcast, so as much as i want this I don't think there is anyway I can make this work.
Thanks for uploading, can you pull metrics that may identify issues i.e. signal strength etc. from the UCI?
Very little, I showed everything we get in the video. I am sure we will get more features in future firmware tho.
*This* is what I'd hope to get when spending the extra money! (Aside from the glorious uniform rack display) The analytical data potential would have me buy in a heartbeat; yet with UI I doubt such soft features would be available anytime soon. 😢
I opened a support ticket looking for exactly this, and Ubiquiti assured me those features are coming in the next unifi network update
Why is not available in Europe, we have the same connection via coax cable
Soooo…… recently moved and restarted service with Charter Spectrum in Missouri. I purchased the UCI gave them the MAC/SN and they could not activate it. I thought something g was wrong with my modem. After going through several sessions with tech support and sales and activations they pretty much said that their system is coded not to activate it because of my market has symmetrical speeds.
Any suggestions?
Very nice overview video. Especially highlighting that easy MAC address goof.
What teleprompter setup are you currently using? There’s some general audience engagement issues I noticed. First looking off to the side, second being the darting eyes reading a teleprompter. Both of which can definitely be improved upon easily with some set re-arranging. 😉
This did not work on my network. is there a special setup for to acclimate to my network
it should have added PON as well for those with Gpon conection
They proably released this just so they could charge $300-500 for a fiber version. Ubiquiti is letting money get to their heads and is straying from their roots.
PON is alot more finicky compared to docsis.
Why? All you need is an SFP module to do PON. You don't need a whole box.
@@bren.r They already make ont units. Also, if your isp even allows it, you can replace their onu with an sfp
Does it support Spectrum?
I just use my DMP as both modem/router, glas fiber goes directly from ground cable to my DMP.
If you have fiber, you are blessed. Fiber uses ethernet so there is no need for a modem.
Nice product, but $199 is what I am willing to pay for a modem. I paid $120 for a SB8200 while on sale.
I don't know where in SW FL you live but I know Cape Coral we had fiber and now where I live now in an appt they have Summit fiber. It sucks its only 200 but oh well.
so glad I have fiber up to 5GBs in my neighborhood. Have had fiber in the last two homes and i hope to never have to go to cable again.
Comcast does allow personal modems on business accounts. You just can't have any business features. Mainly DIP and DIA requires a comcast device. Dedicated IP address (DIP) or dedicated Internet access DIA. DIA is fancy talk for best ability vs best effort connection. Some modems do offer ability to spoof the MAC address of any device, but how comcast routes DIP, it may not work. I don't think DIA over coax is relay much of a thing until they upgrade to DOCIS 4. DIP or static IP is not available on this device.
Optimum is the only provider in my area. Unfortunately waiting for them to be supported to buy.
Wish it had link aggregation for WAN
Would have liked to see some sort of interesting integration out of the box. Signal strength, connection reliability info...something. Seems like they pushed this out before the software was ready, even though it was leaked like a year ago.
The cool thing about Ubiquity is that they will probably add those features in software later.
I came here to say this as well. Most cable MSO's have locked down even their tech's ability to see signal ratios at the modem. They don't want customers to see how close to the noise-floor their data signal is and thus the ability to point the finger back at them. Exposing the data points to a UI user is paramount in order for me to pull the trigger on this. I'll live with my 'velcro' until I see some movement on additional data points...
@@skibird7733 Yeah, given it's not a novel DOCSIS standard (3.1), it seems like you're paying about a $100 premium just for it to look nice in the rack. If they had some analytics on top of the signal data (or something like that), I probably would have ordered one already.
@@skibird7733I have the arris modem pictured and it'll spit out all of that info, including a complete provisioning config file that you can read with a text editor.
@@skibird7733 And the reason many ISPs turn off the local UI is because of their 16mil customers, only 10 know what those numbers mean. The rest of them call in issues that aren't issues. As long as your modem passes traffic without locking up or rebooting, then there's no customer issue. As much as I hate the practice, I fully understand their position. (I don't want those calls. Nor do I want to have to erase those tickets from the system.)
mine is straight up aris modem here then a enterprise grade router
I get all the reasons but the price. Here in Brazil it’s usually free (you don’t get any discount for not using it) and a tin of headaches on support…
Does it provide cable freq and levels?? Status ??
No :(
Howdy sir, great video; I would recommend you move the frame a little farther away, it’s very distracting that I can see your eyes reading the teleprompter 😅
Thanks for the tip. No teleprompter tho. I think I'm looking at the video monitor off camera tho.
Do we know if they are planning on releasing a fiber internet version of this?
Would be nice if this "cable modem" was more of a multi-compatable device. That way anyone could use it, not just coax people. Fiber/sfp+, coax, phone/dsl, etc.... especially for it to be usable in any scenario. It would suck to get it then switch providers and all of a sudden it's now not useable.
FINALLY someone makes a rack-mount cable modem lol...
Too bad that my ISP _requires_ you use their modem, they will not activate third party modems, but they are also a local ISP to this town (and are so much better than Comcast's crap service).
Then again, they're converting the entire town to fiber internet, and my street is due towards the end of this year, so now I'll want to find a rack mount for the ONT... lol.
Lots of people make rack mount cable modems. Stop looking at Walmart and Best Buy.
really hoping they come out with a fiber version compatible with att
Probably no need for one. I’ve seen people using the appropriate GPON SFP module and plugging the fiber right into the router. I think the only trick is getting the network settings configured correctly which includes a vlan assignment.
i dont want a hacky way to do somthing, and i have a bgw320 which it doesnt work with. you need a "key" from an older modem. id like it to be official and just work. @@misteraon
That's most likely never going to happen given how hard it is and how much it took for people to find a way to bypass ATTs current router for their fiber service.
Not if it becomes an approved router just like this one is for comcast. @@SteveSunny
@@UnknownProductions0 Att doesn't have an approved routers list for their ftth service. They basically force you to use their gateway so until that changes, an Att version is not going to be viable.
Man. If this had come out years ago, I probably would have bought one. We're getting a fiber ISP laying fiber in my town so as soon as its available, I'll drop Comcast so this wouldn't make sense to buy in my case.
Yes, DSL is the new dial up.
Hi for a home owner, is it worth buying UDM SE or just going for Pro should be fine? I am planning to have 2 poe cameras, 3 access points, and g4 doorbell
UDM SE for sure. The cameras are PoE powered and will need a PoE switch in order to function. The UDM SE has that…the Pro does not.
SE is $220 more than the pro at the moment. Something to consider is instead of buying the SE you can buy a pro and put that $220 towards a PoE switch that has more PoE ports.
^ This
@@rory_roxa great point. I had forgotten about the sale. Just know that a PoE switch (like the Lite 8 PoE for $109 would still need to be purchased. Also, don’t forget the cost of a surveillance class hard drive.
Now they need to release a DSL modem for the European market.
Unified, Yeah. how superb ~ till next time- 🙃
Always!
Having to "activate" a modem with a mac address with your isp is a weird concept. In the UK, you just put in BB login or static details into your modem directly and it'll work
It's normal for cable internet because cable internet doesn't use PPPoE which requires a username and password to authenticate your account, DSL providers and Telco FTTx providers here give you a modem/gateway, but they don't authenticate the device, just your login credentials. Cable providers rely on hardware authentication via MAC address using what's called BPI+ (and I think there's a newer version) that's part or the DOCSIS standard. This prevent hardware spoofing and therefore, there's no need for PPPoE, just DHCP or static if on a business connection (residential accounts can't get a static IP typically, but you can usually get a business account at a residential address). as an IT Pro, I hate dealing with PPPoE, it's a completely unnecessary PITA. It's so each to troubleshoot a cable connection than it is a DSL or telco provided FTTx connection.
@@technerd9655 I remember as a kid when we had AT&T DSL, it used PPPoE. I had no idea what that was at the time, but I distinctly remember seeing those terms. When we got upgraded to AT&T U-Verse, they did away with PPPoE. Not sure what authentication they used. At that point, it wasn't a pure DSL service. It was a hybrid fiber system where they ran fiber to the nodes and then the regular phone line to the house. As far as I'm aware, the pure AT&T DSL service is largely abandoned.
That's technically possible here, too. An unassigned modem will still come online, but be limited to a "walled garden" that only has access to the self-activation portal. Most ISPs still ask for the HFC MAC, but they could figure it out from their backend services. (the DHCP server knows the modem through which your address was assigned.)
I wish they would just create a Modem/Gateway all in one. The dream machine is nice, but I don't need the hard drive or built in switch. They are also leaps away from being comparable with pfsense. Just add the coaxial to the dream machine pro and I'll consider buying it. 😂
I hate when they don't specify the chipset in enterprise grade modems. I'm just searching for a BCM3392 or Puma 8 for future increased upstream bandwidth with the new DOCSIS 3.1+/4.0 expected to release early next year. I can tell it's neither of those chipsets because it only has dual orthogonal frequency division multiplexing instead of quad but I'm still not sure what chipset it has.
@@wojtek-33 unfortunately, this is my only option where I live as comcast is the only provider with decent service. Thankfully they're pioneering the DOCSIS 4.0 and have already started pushing upload bandwidths for current subscribers of Gig+ plans
I miss the days of the Motorola cable modems with modified firmware
One problem with comcast is if you are using your own modem you have data caps and overage charges but if you are using their modem their are no data caps and thus no overage charges
I haven't yet hooked my UCI up, but I absolutely have a data cap on my Comcast internet even with the comrap modem. That cap is 1229GB.
I just installed my modem. Unfortunately, i had to get Xfinity involved. The option to put my own modem in was not an option in the app. Then I get told it will cost me MORE to have my own modem vs their modem because of unlimited internet ($30 a month vs $25 for their modem).
Working with "EuroDOCSIS" 3.1? EuroDOCSIS uses 8Mhz Channels and not the 6Mhz Channels used in NA.
I wonder how well this cools. It's pretty sizable for a DOCSIS 3.1 modem, so I'd hope it cools better than other modems.
I've mainly experienced this with Arris modems, but I have seen it with others too, where they will get so hot they burn themselves out - even when they're free-standing and have all the breathing room they could need.
Motorola MB8600 is my choice. never let me down yet. Paid itself off in less then a year by the money I saved not paying the modem rental fee.
The aluminium case should be a good heat sink, but the power supply is built into it.
@@Cinncinnatus same. Love my Motorola surfboards. When mine inevitably dies from lightning damage (even with an inline surge protector) I'm 50/50 on getting a UCI or another Motorola
Don't use blur to hide sensitive information. Blur is a non destructible method and can, with the right technique, be reversible. Use black bars instead.
Care to explain how gigabit on docsis 3.1 is a lie? Pretty sure my 1130mbps down would classify as gigabit?
Wanted to also add that even with their steep price point, it is still a far better value renting a model from the ISP, unless you are only planning to stick with the ISP for at most 1-2 years.
Many ISPs include the cost of the MODEM in base package, so there's no cost savings to buying your own. (they may rent the ROUTER as a value-add.) That said, there's ZERO reason to pay $300 for a cable modem - esp. one this out moded. Even new Arris/Morotola/Netgear modems are less than half the cost, and used can be $25-50.
(Note: there are no commercially available high-split capable modems. The Netgear CM2500 and CM3000 are not available.)
@@jfbeam It all depends on the ISP. Sadly many ISPs, especially in the US, charge you for the cable modem. For example, the major ones only offer cable gateway options on their online signup, and while you can call to have it switched to a cable modem, they will still charge the same rental fee.
On average, it is $15 pr month ($180 per year), plus tax.
What do you mean gig is a lie on coax? I get more than that but not symmetrical yet they are working on it with the mid steam spectrum split.
That is exactly what he means. Also the fact that coax throughput is highly dependent on neighborhood traffic where fiber can reliably hold more connections at reported speeds.
^^ Yes. Also latency is usually high, so it feels slower than a 50Mb fiber connection. That higher latency also means you rarely benefit from those speeds beyond seeing the number in a speed test.
@@unified-itI can only speak for this area but my latency is pretty low I have the dream machine se it monitors my latency it's usual 31ms (10gig internal network). My steam game downloads above gig speeds continuously. Most of the internet is still hfc hybrid (fiber coaxial) so your going to be using coax somewhere between point a to b. Data travels on coax at 85% the speed of light to the node where it changes to fiber. The fiber in this area is converted back to rf at the premise with an onu. I know that fiber is mostly better but I guess my point is I get the full 1.2 + almost always when I don't is right at a gig. I have 2 providers the other is 1 gig failover it's also consistent. The main problem with coax isn't shared bandwidth it is noise on the line interferes with performance and it's almost always their internal wiring loose or bad connectors or bad drop to premise.
@@Billy318197 It's almost always bad wiring at people's homes instead of network conjestion I fix it every day.
Because all of their bragging about gigabit speeds and symmetry coming in the future is all based off of small-scale metro-area tests. It never pans out once bandwidth is shared in the real world. It especially isn't gonna happen in the rurals.