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(More customer reviews)I've had a couple of issues with this modem, specifically dropped connections, and difficulting in getting it to work with a couple of pieces of equipment.
1) Over the year or so that I've used this modem with Cox cable, I came to expect a lost connection every couple of hours or so, requiring me to renew the DHCP lease. I had figured that it was spotty service w/ my provider until a friend in the same neighborhood got cable modem service, and found it to be rock solid. After spending a few minutes on the phone w/ the cable company technician, we determined that signal strength in my area should be fine, and they could find no upstream or downstream issues that should be causing the connection to drop. The other strange effect was that the modem would have to go through 3-4 rounds of negotiation to get sync'd with the cable. The cable companies conclusion was that it was probably my modem.
2) My other issue was in using a router/firewall. I had one left over from my previous residence (where I rented a toshiba cable modem). Despite numerous tries, I could never get it working with this modem and Cox. I eventually gave up and ran zonealarm instead. I've also never been able to get another machine to work with this modem, even with direct connection.
After figuring out that the dropped connections were probably coming from the cable modem, I got a linksys cable modem. It's been rock solid since changing out, not a single dropped connection. It is also more than happy to deal with my firewall/NAT box. I may have had a bum modem, but wasn't able to get through to Zoom tech support to figure that out (spending all day on hold isn't worth my time, when a new linksys was just $70).
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MODEL- 5041 VENDOR- ZOOM TELEPHONICS FEATURES- CableModem External External USB DOCSIS Cable Modem with 10/100BaseT Ethernet Interface. This DOCSIS 1.0 (1.1 upgradeable digital certificates installed) Cable Modem has USB and 10/100BaseTX Ethernet ports for maximum compatibility. The USB port simplifies end-user installation of the cable modem by eliminating the need for a computer network interface card (NIC). The Ethernet interface permits the 5041 to be used with Windows (including Windows XP) Macintosh Linux and other computers that have an Ethernet port. The USB interface can be used with Windows 98SE/2000/Me/XP. Includes Cable Modem 4 ft. USB cable 6 ft. Category-5 10/100BaseT cable power supply and cord CD-ROM with software including ZoneLabs ZoneAlarm personal firewall and AdSubtract ad blocker/cookie filter and Users manual. * DOCSIS 1.0 compliant DOCSIS 1.1 software upgradeable CableLabs 1.0 certified. * DOCSIS standard baseline privacy 56-bit DES (Data Encryption Standard) encryption upstream encoding downstream decoding. * Includes ZoneAlarm ad blocker/cookie filter software. -- OPERATING PARAMETERS --------------------- UpStream DownStream Frequency 5 to 42 MHz 91 to 857 MHz Data Rate Up to 10.2 Mbps Up to 42 Mbps Modulation QPSK/16QAM 64QAM/256QAM Error Correction Reed-Solomon encoding Reed-Solomon decoding (ITU J.83 Annex B) Channel Bandwidth 200/400/800/1600/3200 KHz 6 MHz Signal Level +8 to +58 dBmV (QPSK) -15 to +15 dBmV +8 to +55 dBmV (16QAM) REQUIRES - DOCSIS cable data service Computer with a 10/100BaseT Network Interface Card (NIC) and any operating system that supports the TCP/IP protocol (e.g. DOS Windows 3.1/95/98/Me/2000/NT4 Mac OS Linux etc.); Cable with coaxial connectors. APPROVALS- FCC B; UL C-UL; EN 55022 Class B; EN 55024; EN 60950 POWER- 12VDC 500mA nominal Consumption 6 watt nominal SIZE - 8.9w x 1.6h x 6.5d MANUFACTURER WARRANTY: 5 YEARS
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