It all happened when I decided to read the offer at Costco for this bright green box that claimed to “make Internet faster”. I got the Motorola SB6120 broadband cable modem for little more than U$70.00. My hope was that, if nothing else changed, I would have the modem paying for itself in less than a year, eliminating U$7.00/month that I’ve been paying to rent from Comcast a previous version (the SB5101U).
After a week of experiments, averaging speeds obtained via SpeedTest.net at about the same day during 3 different days, I got what is an impressive 52% download speed improvement, going from 13.1Mbps before to 19.9MBps after the new cable modem was installed. Upload speed went from an average of 2.8Mbps to 3.7Mbps (32% improvement). Those speeds vary considerably during the day, and cannot be taken as a reference at a different location. Yet, getting 52% more download speed for U$7.00 less per month looks like a great return on investment.
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