Motorola SB6120 SURFboard DOCSIS 3.0 eXtreme Broadband Cable Modem

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 7.1 x 2.8 inches ; 1.5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B001UI2FPE
• Item model number: 545101-011-00
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (112 customer reviews)
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• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 28, 2009

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Ultra-fast Internet at your fingertips – NEW lightning fast technology lets you surf up to 4x faster than traditional cable modems.
The Motorola SURFboard SB6120 eXtreme Cable Modem unleashes the next wave of broadband technology at exceptional speed. The SB6120 is up to 4 times faster than DOCSIS® 2.0 broadband cable modems making it capable of reaching data rates up to 150 Mbps. That makes gaming, shopping, downloading, working, high-quality voice and video conferencing, and peer-to-peer networking applications — far more realistic, faster, and efficient than ever before. The SB6120 delivers your complete personal media experience, at lightning-fast broadband speed. So what are you waiting for?

Motorola SURFboard® eXtreme Cable Modem

Easy to Install, Activate, and Use.

Delivers a realistic gaming experience – watch as games come to life

Next Generation DOCSIS® 3.0; backwards compatible to DOCSIS 2.0

Up to 4x faster than DOCSIS 2.0 cable modems

Enhance your interactive gaming experience

Easy to install and simple to use

Watch as games come to life.

Highlights

• Capable of downloading up to 2000 times faster than 56k analog phone modems
• Capable of downloading up to 4 times faster than DOCSIS 2.0 broadband cable modems
• DOCSIS® 3.0 Certified
• Enables a myriad of advanced multimedia services:
• - Access real-time online games; new heights in realism and speed
• Faster music downloads; one song or the entire album
• Share digital photos, home movies and other multimedia effortlessly over the Internet
• Download high-definition movies to your PC or watch as streaming media
• Windows®, Macintosh®, and UNIX® compatible
• Supports Advanced Encryption Services for data, as activated by your operator
• Features a 10/100/1000Base-T Gigabit Port for incredible wired network speeds: enjoy lag-free network gaming and faster file transfers
• Intuitive, easy to read front panel operational status LEDs
• Use your current Internet Browser
• No additional software required
• Slim design saves desk space
• 2-year limited warranty

What’s in the Box
Inside the Box - Motorola SB6120 SURFboard eXtreme Cable Modem,Quick start guide,Installation CD-ROM,Ethernet cable,Power adapter and cord,Install sheet,Warranty card

Product Description

Motorola's easy-to-use SB6120 SURFboard DOCSIS 3.0 Cable Modem unlocks the potential of offering innovative high-bandwidth data and multimedia services to customers. Utilizing the power of DOCSIS 3.0, the SB6120 enables channel bonding of up to 4 downstream channels and 4 upstream channels - which allows an operator to offer their customers advanced multimedia services with data rates of well over 100 Mbps in each direction.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy setup, great so far!, June 10, 2009

By	Scott L. Elliott - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I had the older SB5120 and lately I have had to restart the router about 2 times a weeks when I was using massive bandwidth.

The new modem works great with my Comcast service here in Olympia, WA. Took 5 min on the phone for the Comcast Tech to authenticate the new router.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Game player review, August 6, 2009

By	Joseph Alegre (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews

I bought this modem the other day because I felt my old SB5101 modem was not optimized for speed. I have a regular DOCSIS 2.0 service through Comcast. The modem made a huge impression on me after it was installed. The download and upload increased around 20 percent. The amazing thing is that this modem squeeze extra bandwidth out of your existing service (weather you have a standard basic megabyte connection or the newer DOCSIS 3.0 service high speed connection). The noticeable difference was the latency speed of the connection. When I click on a link on a web page, the page loads up as soon as the link is clicked. My old SB5101 modem would take a few extra milliseconds to load. What does this mean? If you play video games like Halo 3 via X-box or Call of duty, you will have a reaction time advantage against your competition. The clear negative of this product is that it takes longer to boot-up. If you power cycle the modem or if your internet service provider resets the modem, it will take two minutes to restart. It will take Comcast longer to recognize the modem when you call in to give the Mac address because when they reset the modem remotely, it will take two minutes for the modem to initialize. Once it is online it performs flawlessly. Anyone that buys this modem will benefit from the extra tweaks it has regardless if the are using a basic or super high speed internet service.

42 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Fast! but doesnt play well with D-Link DIR-655, June 15, 2009

By	Ray (Florida) - See all my reviews

When Comcast upgraded South Florida to DOCSIS 3.0 I decided to upgrade from a SB5100 to this for my home network. The initial installation went by okay, it takes about 5 min to find a signal from comcast (alot slower then the older 5xxx series surfboards) but when it finally connected I ran a speedtest and it was connecting at 32,000/4,000 which was amazing because I was only paying for 12,000/2,000 service. I was very pleasantly surprised having this modem hooked up directly to my pc.

And then I tried to hook up my router (d-link 655) to the modem... Upon my first attempt it would not establish a connection at all using the 1.11 firmware that I was using with my router. So I tried to see if it would work with newer firmware, I went to the D-Link website and downloaded the latest firmware version 1.21. That firmware allowed the router to establish a connection with my SB6120 but the signal would drop any time that one of the computers with a wireless adapter would try to download anything or stream stuff. My frustration made me think about using google to find an answer to my problem so I eventually found a link to d-links ftp server on a forum where they had their unreleased beta firmware. I installed the beta firmware 1.32NA which was the latest they had on June 15, 2009. The beta firmware has made the connection stable when using the internet connection on the computer connected to the router but it still drops the connection to the modem when other computers on the network (accessing the router wirelessly) try to use the same internet connection.

Its a wonderful modem if you have it directly plugged into your computer but if you want to share it with the other devices on your network it can be a real nightmare. I spent hours changing settings, upgrading firmware on my router, and connecting/disconnecting devices to try to fix the disconnection issues and never found a way to get around them while my router is hooked up to the modem. I guess I will have to go back to using my SB5100 for the time being, at least until I find a router that will work with this modem without issues.

I gave it a 3/5 because it is pretty expensive and the compatibility issues are a real headache but if you can manage to get it to work your speeds will see a vast improvement even on the lower speed tiers.