NETGEAR Nighthawk DOCSIS 3.1 Cable Modem (Open Box)

My previous modem went out after years of use, so in a pinch I ran out to the local brick-and-mortar and bought the cheapest Netgear DOCSIS 3.0 modem, which is good for around 600 Mbps download. That was fine as I only had 300 Mbps service, and it gave me about 340 Mbps download. Well, fiber is moving into my area, so the cable company is feeling the heat and bumped me up to 1,000 Mbps (1 Gig) download for no extra cost. That 3.0 modem maxed out around 540 Mbps. So I decided to spend the money and get a 1 Gig DOCSIS 3.1 modem to take full advantage of the speed. The cost of those are 3-4x more, but then I ran across this refurbished Netgear model for $99 here on Amazon, only double the cost. A modem works in the background and connects you to the internet. It doesn't need to look pretty, doesn't matter if it is new, used, or refurbished, as long as it works. I purchased this refurbished model, Amazon got it to me in a couple days, I connected it and I called my cable company to give them the MAC address, and it has been working great since. I typically get 920-924 Mbps down and 53-54 Mbps up. (photo shows a time I got 62 Mbps up, but it only happened that one time). I use this with a NetGear RAX120 wireless router, which supports port aggregation. I recently connected it this way (with 2 ethernet cables between the modem and router) to see if I would get faster download speeds. Well, it won't give any faster speed from the cable provider to the modem, so the benchmark as pictured remains the same, but may help when several people in the family are downloading/streaming at once. Nice to know this modem supports port aggregation and could run at 2 Gig speeds if my cable provider offers that in the future. But downloads are incredibly fast at 1 Gig -- I am very happy with my purchase and to get the same product at a drastically reduced cost buying refurbished here on Amazon.