I received my modem last night. I called on Monday and they said they ran out of modems and wouldn't have them till the middle of August but I guess they made more quickly.
Anyway, it was a straightforward install though I had to wait over one hour on hold for them to activate the thing. Once they did it took about 10-15 minutes to download the new firmware and I was good to go.
One thing I should mention was that the wireless and routing features were on by default. According to the Shaw guy that I spoke with this morning this is how they come from the factory. In order to disable this you need to log into the administration console and there should be some options. They called me back while I was driving (I was using the hands free!) so when I get home I'll try it out.
I did a bunch of speed tests and I was averaging roughly 33-38 Mbps. Not sure if this is what I should be expecting with Broadband 50 but I hope the speeds pick up. I was hoping that I could watch 1080P movie trailers immediately rather than waiting for them to buffer (from Apple movie trailers) but that wasn't the case.
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