Zoom 5241 Cable Modem USB Ethernet

List Price: $60.99 Discount Price: $51.70

Features:

• Easy installation with both USB and Ethernet connectors
• Support for all popular operating systems
• Microsoft WHQL certified
• DOCSIS Baseline Privacy Plus and 56 bit encryption provides privacy and security
• Highly integrated design for superior reliability

Customer Reviews:

High Speed Surfing As Your Own [Posted on 2007-08-10]
With a lot of us choosing to surf the internet with high speed internet access, whether it is DSL, or a cable modem. It is easy to see how much we all want the right way to surf at high speeds. Although whenever you order high speed internet service from your cable company, you always have to lease or rent the cable modem. Zoom electronics which has made some of the highest quality services knows that feeling. Their external cable modem is convient and easy to setup and works nicely with all operating systems, including Windows XP, and Mac OS X. This also works great with all high speed service companies including Optimum Online from Cablevision, and Time Warner's Road Runner high speed service. I absolutely recommend it if you want to surf at fast speeds, without extra fees for your service.

Price: B+

Convience: B

Easy To Setup: B 1/2+

Compatability: B 1/2+

Overall: B

An excellent product. [Posted on 2007-09-22]
The Zoom 5241 cable modem is high quality product. It is very consistent in its high rate data processing speeds. All this and extremely quiet. Five stars!

Works exactly as described [Posted on 2008-06-28]
I purchased this cable modem after the Motorola modem provided by Comcast broke.

This modem has worked perfectly so far. It was simple to set up. All I had to do was unplug my old modem and switch the cables from the old modem to the new modem.

The Zoom 5241 modem is slightly warm to the touch after it has been plugged in for awhile. All of its status lights are bright green and the "link" light blinks when the modem is properly connected.

This modem should be able to work with a variety of cable modem providers. Comcast tried to tell me that this modem would not work with their service. However, the technician I talked to was incorrect and this modem works perfectly.

More than Doubled my speedtest.net result from 3171 to 8115 kb/s [Posted on 2008-08-16]
My old modem was a Dlink DCM-201 which I had for about 3 years before it started to intermittently stop detecting the cable connection.
I suspect it might have had something to do with DOCSIS compliance, since the old modem was only compatible with the 1.1 standard and i believe Comcast has been upgrading their connections.
After replacing my modem with the Zoom 5241, according to tests run from speedtest.net, I went from a download speed of 3171 kb/s and upload speed of 965 kb/s to 8115 kb/s download and 1460 kb/s upload.
The only thing i needed to do was connect the power, ethernet, and cable, and call comcast and tell them i had replaced a modem and for them to record the new MAC address that was printed on the label on the side of the modem. The whole process took 10 minutes.

Its been running for 1 week now like a champ.

Happy--economical, robust, works well [Posted on 2008-09-08]
We suffered for two or three years with two Comcast provided Motorola Surfboard modems. Finally as my wife's complaining and accusing looks got worse, it occurred to me I could throw out vendor-provided equipment and get customer-provided equipment. I needed to assign the new MAC address for the modem, and I initially called up Comcast, but after waiting for their rep, and then getting lost when he put me on hold (what's new?), I figured what the heck, and ran Comcast's setup utility on my computer. I managed to muddle my way through, and after a month the Zoom modem has worked flawlessly. No more lost connections, and I've got a fairly complicated system of a Vonage adapter and two routers. Actually, here's the system that works for me: 1) The Zoom modem, 2) A Linksys BEFSX41 firewall/router as a DHCP Server, 3a) one port on the BEFSX41 to a Vonage Linksys Adapter, and 3b) another port on the BEFSX41 to a Linksys Router/wireless adapter in my home office that hooks to two computers, which in turn serve printers. I keep 1, 2, and 3a along with all household phone connections in a closet, so the equipment and cables don't clutter up my home office. I have ethernet/cable/phone cables running from the closet to wall outlets in several different rooms. Everything works in this configuration. I recommend the Zoom cable modem as an economical and robust alternative to vendor-provided hardware. I recommend not to bother renting equipment like this that's cheap anymore. If it stops working, I like no inhibition about buying new hardware and not depending on a tedious customer service process to muddle through my trouble ticket, sometimes for days or weeks, often with unsatisfactory resolution. Vendors too often think intermittent service is just fine if it happens to be working when they check it.

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