{"id":721,"date":"2012-05-20T15:16:45","date_gmt":"2012-05-20T22:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=721"},"modified":"2012-05-20T15:23:11","modified_gmt":"2012-05-20T22:23:11","slug":"avoid-the-motorola-sbg901","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=721","title":{"rendered":"Avoid the Motorola SBG901"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re in the market for a DOCSIS 2.0 cable modem, I suggest you avoid the Motorola SBG901. Based on my experience, they&#8217;re pieces of unreliable junk.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve now tried two, and they both exhibit the same symptom of continually rebooting themselves (causing a lost connection) every few minutes. The modem I&#8217;m presently renting from my broadband provider, the Ambit U10C018, almost never does this, so it&#8217;s not an issue of my signal from the cable company being weak or unreliable.<\/p>\n<p>Given that two completely different samples have behaved in the same way, I would also have to say that the odds of this being two random defects are pretty low. It appears to be a design defect of this product. A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?rls=en&amp;q=motorola+sbg901+keeps+rebooting\">Google search on &#8220;motorola sbg901 keeps rebooting&#8221;<\/a> comes up with more than a few matches of others who have run into my problem, which provides further\u00a0 evidence of a design defect.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a pity, as the Motorola product has the desirable feature of combining a wireless access point with a cable modem in one box.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re in the market for a DOCSIS 2.0 cable modem, I suggest you avoid the Motorola SBG901. Based on my experience, they&#8217;re pieces of unreliable junk. I&#8217;ve now tried two, and they both exhibit the same symptom of continually rebooting themselves (causing a lost connection) every few minutes. The modem I&#8217;m presently renting from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}