Rod at home 2 Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 Last month I was stranded without Internet access when my DSL modem failed. It happened on a Saturday, and my ISP (CenturyLink) wasn't opened. So I went out and purchased a new DSL modem at Best Buy. It's a Netgear Broadband ADSL2+ Modem, DM111PSP. Now I've been contacted by CenturyLink, informing me that they've laid fiber optics in my neighborhood, and that soon I'll be able to get faster DSL to my house. Yeah! The question I have is, what's the fastest download and upload speeds will my new DSL modem will handle? Link to post Share on other sites
cskenney 155 Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 Do you know if you have to change modems to use the fiber? Link to post Share on other sites
jmwills 284 Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 Your ISP will have those figures and they should be advertising them as a selling point. I would guess in the neighborhood of 100mb/s at a minimum. Link to post Share on other sites
tojoski 3 Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 In some areas, Centurylink offers Fiber to Home (FTH), in this case I think you are going to need whatever media converter or router that Centurylink provides. On the other hand, AT&T in this area likes to call people up and tell them they have new fiber lines, sell them a new DSL modem and a new contract and call it Uverse. The speed didn't change, but in some cases it is less expensive. Link to post Share on other sites
jmwills 284 Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 Yes, you will have to have some new equipment to make the conversion to fiber. Link to post Share on other sites
ikon 439 Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 Back to the original question, don't the specs for your new modem tell you its maximum throughput? Link to post Share on other sites
Rod at home 2 Posted March 15, 2014 Author Share Posted March 15, 2014 My ISP thinks I still have the DSL modem they issued me. However, it died last month so I had to replace it. I went to Best Buy (the only electronic store I have available in my area) and bought the DSL modem they had on sale. I did use CenturyLink (my ISP) technical support to help set up my new DSL modem, but I guess this is a case of where the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing, because they still think I'm using their DSL modem. Link to post Share on other sites
jmwills 284 Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 I never use the ISP's equipment. NEVER. Link to post Share on other sites
Jason 84 Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 Why not? Mine issued a Motorola Surfboard 6120 DOCSIS 3.0 modem for my business account. Seems fine for 50 Mbps downstream. Link to post Share on other sites
Rod at home 2 Posted March 15, 2014 Author Share Posted March 15, 2014 I don't think it will be as good as 100 MBPS, although that would be nice. When the CenturyLink tech visited our home earlier this week she said either 20 to 40 MBPS. When I called CenturyLink's two days later to try and get it set up they confirmed those speeds, unless we also bundled in a service they have called PRISM. Apparently, PRISM is a TV via the Internet. (No satellite TV; no cable TV.) If we went with PRISM it would be even faster than 40 MBPS, but I don't know how much faster. I don't know if I want to go with that or not. Kind of thinking not doing PRISM. Link to post Share on other sites
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