I bought this modem because it had four ports but it only seemed to ever really work on two of the ethernet ports. Whenever I had all four plugged in there was always two or three that didn't work.
Had a netgear nighthawk router with a midco modem. Midco telling me that is the latest and greatest modem they have. When I got the netgear nighthawk modem my speeds increased dramatically! And my ping dropped way down