Looking for a nice cable modem

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So my dad has finally decided to upgrade the internet in our house now that AT&T is insisting on charging $40/month for shitty service (3Mbps down/0.5 Mbps up). We're switching to Comcast, and we'll be getting 20Mbps down and 5Mbps up for $30/month.

The only thing is we're trying to find a decent cable modem that supports coaxial cable. I don't really know anything about cable modems other than just looking at their maximum download and upload speeds but my dad thinks he's found a good one. Here's the link:

http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/321457/Zoom-5341-DOCSIS-30-Cable-Modem/

Is that a good modem or is there something better you guys would recommend?

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bump

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Ask comcast for a docsys 3 modem, they have them and they rawk, as well they are able to take the speeds of up to 100 megabits or better. docsys2 modems not so much

 

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Why would we get a modem from Comcast? They'll charge an extra monthly fee for using their modem when we could just buy our own.

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Im gonna bump this because I have the same question. I do not want to rent

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It looks like we're going with the one my dad found. It should be good enough because it's capable of a lot more bandwidth than we're going to be getting, and it's a docsys 3.