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Qestion about Wireless Routers and Cable Modems

My Comcast Cable wireless is not the greatest. It frequently loses connections and causes problems. I have a few wireless streaming stereos that enable me to have music in the garage, backyard, and kitchen separately from what's going on in the living room. Everything generally works well until I have a party and then for some reason, the wireless goes on the blink. I'm thinking that maybe too many of my friends are accessing my wireless for their phones and then my stereo goofs up.

To solve this problem, I bought a new wireless router that has 8 channels. Basically, this is for gaming and streaming. I'm guessing that I can dedicate channels to specific devices.

All that said, when I opened the box, I found that I need to have a modem. My current setup has a combo router/modem from Comcast, which I will return to them. I need to buy a modem.

I'm looking for any advice on modems. I am guessing that some are better than others and in order to take advantage of my router benefits, I probably need to have a certain amount of modem capability to feed the router. Any advice would be appreciated, I'm not very tech savvy these days.

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A google search of "comcast compatible modems" might get you what you need; I know I found what I needed while doing the same thing for AT&T U-verse
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Search as above, and also search to find

The # of "downstream" and "upstream" channels available in your area and choose a modem that can handle at least as many downstream channels as are available on your cable. Also allow for future growth if you can.

I have an arris 6190 that can do 32 down and 8 up,

my current Comcast cable gets me 28 downstream and 4 upstream channels, and they add more as demand grows (hopefully.)

This is just the 'width' of the freeway to your modem, unrelated to the router 'channels' you mention.
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We unfortunately have Comcast. I found a Motorola modem at best buy which has served us well.

Recently, my son, in hs, found a download program called selfish net. He is now band from ever using this program. He essentially can limit the bandwidth to users so he can monopolize the bandwidth.

It sounds like selfishnet would work.
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Arris 6190 working very well for me.
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Just disable the wireless on your ISP router and use it as a modem.
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Keep your existing modem and router (unless you are renting it) and just disable the wireless in it - or make it the guests wireless. Plug the new device into a LAN port and configure it for just wireless - no internet, no DHCP, etc. Basically it will just act as an access point. In fact, if you haven't bought yet, you may want to just look for a plain access point.

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