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BloodyL · 11-07-2007, 04:19

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. (Freud)

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Back to the thread, I had a silver ambit 120 for a very long time (after I kept on killing pace STB's like ants in a magnifying glass when I used to hammer the upload, many moons ago.)
The power pack for the modem went beserk and ended up feeding something like 15v at 5a to the modem, over time the modem degraded and I'd see a dropoff of speed as the connection was being used.
I did a "quick fix" (oh boy, damn i hate that word, the boss at work is far too keen on that word) by dangling the modem over my PC exhaust fan to cool it.
Eventually I couldn't download for more than a minute without it dipping to dialup speeds.

One engineer visit later and I have a VM branded 255, I can see a very real difference.
The connection is nowhere near as stable as it before the power pack failure and the resultant switch to the 255, I don't know if that is the modem or whether I have been shuffled over to another server in the changeover, but I certainly don't have the rock solid connection I used to have, and this was before the 20mb debacle.

My point in short: doesn't matter what modem you have as far as I can see, just hope that the change will place you on a server that is well managed. (hehe!)

11-07-2007, 04:19	#6
BloodyL Squeeky Buddhist Noodle Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Cheshire. Age: 30 Services: Cable Modem and an unused Samsung STB that no-one wants to recover. Posts: 61	Re: Which modem next.... Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. (Freud) ---------- Post added at 05:19 ---------- Previous post was at 04:56 ---------- Back to the thread, I had a silver ambit 120 for a very long time (after I kept on killing pace STB's like ants in a magnifying glass when I used to hammer the upload, many moons ago.) The power pack for the modem went beserk and ended up feeding something like 15v at 5a to the modem, over time the modem degraded and I'd see a dropoff of speed as the connection was being used. I did a "quick fix" (oh boy, damn i hate that word, the boss at work is far too keen on that word) by dangling the modem over my PC exhaust fan to cool it. Eventually I couldn't download for more than a minute without it dipping to dialup speeds. One engineer visit later and I have a VM branded 255, I can see a very real difference. The connection is nowhere near as stable as it before the power pack failure and the resultant switch to the 255, I don't know if that is the modem or whether I have been shuffled over to another server in the changeover, but I certainly don't have the rock solid connection I used to have, and this was before the 20mb debacle. My point in short: doesn't matter what modem you have as far as I can see, just hope that the change will place you on a server that is well managed. (hehe!)