CommScope is a communications technology corporation that owns ARRIS, a popular brand of cable modems and residential Internet gateway.
The ARRIS SURFboard G54, unveiled in January and available in mid-October, is a convenient way for Cable Internet subscribers to experience Wi-Fi 7. It’s CommScope’s first device to support the latest Wi-Fi standard. Even if you don’t have any Wi-Fi 7 clients yet, which you likely don’t, the new retail …
As the world is slowly adopting Wi-Fi 7, CommScope’s first complete Wi-Fi 6E solution, the 2-pack SURFboard mAX 6E tri-band Mesh Wi-Fi System (model W161) announced on June 15, 2023, is fashionably late to the party, to say the least. Yet, the company touts the new hardware as a “cutting-edge” …
“Did somebody say Wi-Fi 7?” And with that, CommScope—the owner of the ARRIS and its Surfboard brands since late 2018—today announced the flagship SURFboard G54 DOCSIS 3.1 quad-band Wi-Fi 7 Cable Modem. The new device will likely be the most powerful of its type on the market when available for …
The ARRIS W6B Surfboard Thruster Wi-Fi 6E Gaming Acceleration Kit is a niche product—it’s not for everyone. Specifically, it’s only for those too lazy to run a network cable. And by that, I don’t even mean the complete job of getting your home wired, but just a relatively long ready-made …
The new ARRIS SURFboard W6U Wi-Fi 6E Network Upgrade Kit is essentially a Wi-Fi 6E access point. But it’s not like any other access point I’ve worked with. Specifically, unlike the recently reviewed NETGEAR WAX630E, the Arris W6U does not support Wi-Fi 6 and older Wi-Fi standards. In other words, …
On the market for a gateway that can do both DOCSIS 3.1 cable broadband and Wi-Fi 6? CommScope might have something for you. Today, the company announced not one but two such gateways, the ARRIS SURFboard G34 and G36, which it calls “Wi-Fi Cable modems” or “Cable Modems and Wi-Fi …
The ARRIS SURFboard S33 DOCSIS 3.1, first announced in November 2020, sure is an interesting Multi-Gigabit cable modem. Update: On Sep 23, 2024, the S34 model was released with the same design and specs as the S33, with one exception: It has up to 200Mbps upload speed compared to the …
