Apparently Intel's cable modem SoCs (Puma 6) are garbage as well, demonstrating ridiculous jitter level.
I'm also an unfortunate owner of an Arris box. If only the person who showed me this website could have done it a few years ago...
I'm also an unfortunate owner of an Arris box. If only the person who showed me this website could have done it a few years ago...
Mine is a hardware version 3 though.
It's most noticeable in online games, for regular usage, you probably won't see much of a problem.
This guy said it added about 8ms of latency: https://forums.timewarnercable.com/t5/Connectivity/arris-tm1...
So maybe not a huge issue, but personally I’d just spent the $40 on a SB6183 that doesn’t have the issue.
That's because the software is essentially lowest bidder and untested.
(Note: running in a lab is not the same as adversarial testing.)
[1] My most recent purchase had the Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 8265. This is a list of all of Intel's wireless PC chips: https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/series/...