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Shawn
New Contributor II
2 months ago

What are your fastest Gigablast 1Gig plan speeds with your hardware?

I am trying to find out if my modem is not able to get the full Gigablast 1gig speeds for my plan. I am pretty sure my router is a bottleneck, but I don't want to replace my router until I know my m...
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ChrisJ2
Moderator
2 months ago

Hi, Shawn. That modem has 32 downstream channels. As we're addressing each channel at 25Mbps, you are likely going to hover around 800 and would benefit from a different modem. 

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WiderMouthOpen
Esteemed Contributor II
2 months ago

It may only have 32 QAM downstream channels, but it also has the capability of using OFDM downstream channels which can support higher speeds. Cox lists the modem to support up to 1Gbps as per here. Can you explain? What model would you suggest?

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    ChrisJ2
    Moderator
    2 months ago

    Alright, thank you for that information.