<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Thanks everyone (so far) for your reassuring answers.<br> <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">John, specifically to your comments: I do have the excellent Shaw-supplied Hitron CGNM-2250, which they now offer for free for the Internet 30 plan and upward. The Shaw-supplied (on Internet 5 and 15, and previously on 25, 30, and 60) crappy Cisco DPC3825 (which was designed by a company that Cisco later bought) has indeed caused problems for VoIP customers of mine.<br> <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Were you referring to the crappy Cisco DPC3825, or to the allegedly much better Cisco DPC3848V that Shaw had been supplying for Internet 30 and upward before they brought in the Hitron CGNM-2250?<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> <br>By the way, the Hitron CGNM-2250 allows configuring 1 or 2 of its 4 ports to be configured for straight IP pass-thru, so no reason to ever kick this modem/router into bridge mode. I've been doing exactly that for the last few months with LAN ports #1 and #2 on my Hitron CGNM-2250 (on the Internet 30 plan) - Shaw was kind enough to give me two extra IP addresses for this purpose.<br> <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">In the meantime, I also just switched to the Internet 150 offer. So far so good - no hangups yet - and I'm getting 8-11 ms ping (as before), 93 mbps down, 16 mbps up, and continuing excellent VoIP, on my retained Hitron CGNM-2250.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Hartmut W Sager - Tel +1-204-339-8331<br></span></font><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 17 August 2016 at 08:00, John Lange <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john@johnlange.ca" target="_blank">john@johnlange.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Plugging a slower network into a faster one shouldn't inherently cause any issues.</div><div><br></div>But just a heads up for anyone considering this upgrade. Most firewalls will struggle to do 150Mbs, even if they have gigabit ports. If you don't end up getting full speeds it may well be because your own firewall can't handle it.<div><br></div><div>And on a related note; Shaw has 2 modems available for this service, Cisco & Hiltron. We've experienced serious issues with the Cisco modem (almost certainly because it's been miss-configured by Shaw). Even in bridging mode the modem is dropping UDP packet fragments. If you experience any weird "stalls", it may be due to this. Specifically, the Cisco modems do not work with SIP UDP and Shaw only uses the Hiltron modems modems with their own VOIP service.</div><div><br></div><div>John<div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 4:24 AM, Trevor Cordes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:trevor@tecnopolis.ca" target="_blank">trevor@tecnopolis.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span>On 2016-08-17 Hartmut W Sager wrote:<br>
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> My big question is, are there any hiccups/hangups when this plan is<br>
> used on 100 mpbs ports and hardware? A couple of my computers have<br>
> 100 mbps (not gigabit) ethernet ports, and so does a router or two<br>
<br>
</span>My strong hunch would be "no worries". IP and TCP should handle it<br>
well. For years I ran many 100 modems on 10 NICs (a long while back)!<br>
Same dilemma, never any problem or speed issue.<br>
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