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Miketune
Feb 19, 2017Aspirant
CM1000 Modem Locks on Only Half the Channels
My 2-week old CM1000 modem (Comcast) self-installed as advertised - no call to Comcast. Quite a pleasant surprise for me. I noticed, however, it is locked on only 16 channels down and 4 up, hal...
vkdelta
Feb 21, 2017NETGEAR Employee Retired
how many channels supported are in control of Comcast CMTS and RF plant configuration. Cable modem just bonds what it was provided. Most likely, your area CMTS has only 16 channels enabled. Comcast has only handful of 32 bonding areas and quite a few 24 channels area. If you are part of areas where new things happen very late, thats probably reason why you are still on 16x4 bonding.