Bringing Motorola SURFboard SB6141 to new location

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I am switching houses and buying a separate internet plan than the one I am using at the house I stay at currently. I know that when you rent modems from the ISP and move, you can't necessarily just plug in that modem and use it. But this Motorola modem is not from spectrum and was bought aftermarket. Couldn't I just factory reset it and plug it in when I order spectrum at my new place? Or are there any hoops to jump through or reason to just buy a new modem. Also, I notice it is 8x4 Channel bonding. I will have a 100/10 plan but I have noticed on 8x4 it pushes 120. Could that be furthered with 16x4 modem? Possibly more reason to buy another modem. Thanks.
 
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bill001g

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You need to read their compatibility list.....it can be different for different neighborhoods. They also limit it to certain segments. You could likely move it to a house near you but moving across town does not work without calling them. There is little information on this topic likely so modem thieves can not figure it out.

Technically docsis using 8x4 can run close to 350mbps but ISP never seem to do that. Been a long time since I worked on this stuff so it could be they are using a lower encoding or they are really running 350mbps but that allows 3 customers to run at 100mbps.

In any case you will only get what you pay for. I know when I first installed it was set to 100mbps I did not know the offered 300 for only a small amount more. They made a change at the office. It did change things in my modem. Where I am they use 24 channels for all their offerings but I hear they are upgrading everything to 1gbit and I will need a docsis 3.1 device
 
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