| | |  | Recording Equipment | Home » » » SURFboard Wireless Cable Modem Gateway | | | | | | | Description: | | 802.11g wireless technology. Wireless range of up to 328' indoors and 1312' outdoors. Commercial-grade firewall enhances network security. Includes power adapter, installation CD, USB and Ethernet cables. | | | Features: | |
• 802.11g wireless technology
• Wireless range of up to 328' indoors and 1312' outdoors
• Commercial-grade firewall enhances network security
• Includes power adapter, installation CD, USB and Ethernet cables.
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 2.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 6.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 9.0 inches | | Product Weight:
| 1.8 pounds | | Package Length:
| 10.3 inches | | Package Width:
| 9.9 inches | | Package Height:
| 2.8 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.75 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 187 reviews |
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 great piece great priceNov 15, 2009
I was extremely pleased with my Motorola Surfboard. I played it save and used Motorola's tech support for the very easy setup. They were both courteous and patient and got my wireless network up in no time. Since installing I have not dropped a conncetion at all. My previous motorola surfboard supplied by the cable company was so extremely reliable that I bought my own. Great product at a good price.
 Worked great...for a while and then cost me moreOct 23, 2009
Picked up the SBG900 in January and it worked great until a couple of weeks ago when it would not hook up with the internet. Tried the old reboot that they seem to need every once in a while and that fixed it. Cool. Except that it happens 3-4 times a day now. I then jumped through the hoops with the Motorola techs and it was determined after a week that I was due a replacement. (don't use the e-mail approach, call them) But I have to pay shipping to get it and again pay shipping to return the defective one. So much for the great warranty. Amazon stands behind anything I have bought here, no fees for replacement of defective products. Go figure. No more Motorola in my future, too many other companies out there who would want my money.
0 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Buy at WalmartOct 23, 2009
I just wanted everyone to know walmart is selling this exact item for under $62. Don't waste your money buying it for $100+ from these current sellers.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Decent as a modem; wireless drops connections frequentlyOct 19, 2009
I bought this product a few months ago as a 100% mail-in-rebate deal from Comcast for signing on. As a modem, it works fine; my roommate has it hooked up to his desktop and it provides relatively standard speeds through the LAN. Setting it up was a cinch and generally foolproof. Also, the wireless controls are relatively intuitive and the control GUI has an extensive "Help" section to help you figure out exactly what you're doing. Range is relatively mediocre (apartment neighbor gets about two bars through two walls and a closet) and the firewall management could be more automated but is relatively easy to figure out.
The main problem with this modem/router combo, then, is the router itself. If I watch anything that needs the bandwidth equivalent to HQ (not HD) YouTube videos for more than 30 minutes, the router portion chokes and dies, requiring a reset. It also has trouble streaming flash videos and generally gives me a performance, in terms of loading speed, lower than my previous basic DSL (1MB down, 768KB up), which is somewhat inconvenient given that we are currently on Comcast's much faster basic cable package of 16MB down, 1MB up. Also, torrenting (legal, Creative Commons music, of course) at above 200kbps down, 80kbps up is out of the question, unless you want the pathetic thing dying on you after ten minutes. It's forced my roommate and I to go out and buy a separate router, which may or may not resolve this issue.
tl;dr - basically, if you need to use the wireless portion for anything more than very mild bandwidth, look elsewhere. If it's just you and it's wired to it through LAN and you're only really using it as a modem, you should be fine.
0 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Good but not what I expectedOct 04, 2009
The modem is good... but with only one LAN outlet you will need
to buy a router so that you can add additional LAN based products
such as the wireless printer and skype phone. Is that
that difficult to have 3 LAN outputs?
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