Digital Cable

[network_plus]

Hello all, I cant seem to find any good information on this. Currently, my cable company (internet provisioned) is implementing Digital Cable. Will this enhance internet access also, like speed/bottleneck issues? During the day my speeds are great, around 2.2 megabits but nightly hours (>7pm) I'm just above dial up (~6Kbytes/sec). Hell that's about the only time I need to use it, why not put me on a 28000 bps modem? I can't justify paying $38 for this when a steady DSL 1.5 connection is just $33. I am curious because I'm going to switch if my connection doesn't improve through digital later this month. Thanks for your input.

Here is my cable modem info if you can make anything out of it

Downstream Channel
Downstream Frequency 111000000 Hz
Lock Status Locked
Modulation 64 QAM
Symbol Rate 5.056941 Msym/sec
Downstream Power 17.4 dBmV
SNR 33.854 dB

Upstream Channel
Upstream Frequency 30000000 Hz
Lock Status Locked
Modulation QPSK
Symbol Rate 2560000 sym/sec
Upstream Power 53.3 dBmV
Channel ID 6

DOCSIS1.0 Class of Service Parameters
Class ID 1
Max Downstream Rate (bps) 3072000
Max Upstream Rate (bps) 512000
Upstream Channel Priority 7
Guaranteed Min Upstream Data Rate (bps) 0
Max Upstream Transmit Burst (bytes) 0
Privacy Enable 0

[YARDofSTUF]

Digital cable is a TV thing only. Your downstream power level is kinda high, I dunno if its too high or not though.

[Sava700]

umm yeah power levels for Down should be around -+5

0 is center point.

[travis2144]

up and down are to high, sounds like there is an amp on the line that is not needed