I recently bought a used TM822g to replace the one that optimum gave me. Everything seems to work fine, but the Link, US, and DS LEDs are orange instead of green. From the manual, this is means I have "high speed" instead of "ultra high speed" internet. Some Googling suggests that this means that the channels are "unbonded," which only means slightly more to me than "high speed."
The TM822g that I'm renting from optimum was solidly green. The only difference in the signal levels is that the downstream power on the old modem was ~5dBmV vs. ~3dBmV on the new one.
How much should I care about this? The signal levels seem okay, and I get the full 110/35 I'm paying for on speed tests, but I'm concerned being unbonded means that it'll be less resilient to noise / congestion.
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