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Originally Posted by JustAnotherN00b
Very rapid primer and to answer the OPs question your STB receives all the data that is being sent to your local area on the cable internet frequency (can't remember exactly what it is on CoCo networks). Your STB will receive the same amount of RF but will have to complete decoding of more of it at 1.5Mbit than 1Mbit.
The Pace boxes have only the 1 CPU shared for both cable modem and internet, the Samsungs have 1 for each.
Shouldn't affect your TV but if the Paces are pushed too hard may affect Internet. TV again unlikely to see disruption as it gets a constant data stream on all TV channels.
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I am quite a rarity in the world of PACE boxes it seems....
I did have three....two 1000's and a 2000. The 1000 did TV and my 1mb broadband for the best part of three years. Despite my often deliberate attempts to crash it, it never did. I could even hit the interactive services, such as Wimbledon, while downloading stuff off the net and it still didn't even breathe heavily.
I've now had a Samsung fitted due to the 1mb upgrade, but that Pace was so good I didn't part with it, I moved it to the bedroom and swapped the other 1000 out instead, the Samsung is now doing the broadband and though it is clearly very good, it is honestly NO better than the PACE I had before.
So I now have a Pace 1000, a Pace 2000, and a Samsung. None of them ever go wrong and I'm delighted with them.
I realise this is not always the case, and I've never had a 4000 so don't know about those, but I thought I'd share my experience. Having a Pace is not necessarily bad news.