Customer Ratings & Reviews

The Netgear CM500 cable modem is the fastest cable modem that I have ever owned. It is was a breeze to set up. Just called my local cable company to give them required information from the modem. It is an absolute fantastic modem.

Very fast, as great update for our home. Pairs perfectly with our Nighthawk X6 AC3200 Tri-Band Wi-Fi 5 Router. My son is an extreme gamer and now we all don't have to fight for internet speed.

I use this with my Cox connection with contract rating of 150 Mbps download and 10 upload. Speed test on wireless connected iMac exceeds these values at 180 Mbps and 16 Mbps. Easy to install and activate with Cox.

Works great! Managed to squeeze 600Mbs out of it. At $40 , who can beat that deal.

Great value for the money. Works great with sparklight high speed. I have the 300mbps plan and it handles it just fine. Great deal if you catch it on sale.

The product is firing on all cylinders. COX was nagging me to move up from DOCSIS 2.0 so this is a little better than the minimum required to do that. It hasn't required any reboots since it was installed. There have been two things that bugged me. 1) The activation URL for COX in the user manual is wrong. It is no fault of Netgear that the activation process, once I found the URL, was a hassle. 2) The previous modem had a button on top that allowed me to in effect pause the modem, which I find valuable during intervals where the house is unoccupied. I didn't demerit for this because it is possible to find this out before purchase.

This modem was easy to set up. Instructions very easy to follow. Unit performs very fast. By purchasing the modem it save me money every month by not having to pay my cable company retail fee for there modem.

I knew I needed a 16 channel downstream MODEM for my 250Mbps connection. MODEM are pretty simple, you make sure you have enough channels to cover your speed or you may limit the speed of your connection. Xfininity installed my system and other than a hiccup where I had to have it re-authorized in their system it's worked without problem and i'm getting the expected speed i'm paying for. I've subtracted a star for a couple of nitpicky things. 1. There is no way to mount this to a wall and while that may sound silly I have my network homerun to a closet and wall mounting would be the easiest way to keep it out of the way. 2. It's very lightweight and plasticky so it's easy for the cable to pull the MODEM off of it's base and the glossy plastic shows fingerprints too easily. Summary: A solid piece of networking equipment. No frills casing but ultimately I can deal with that.

Great modem for the price. Works as advertised and easy to set up.

Time Warner is upgrading Maxx in Raleigh area, and this cable modem supports the 16 dl x 4 ul channels to achieve the fastest speeds that they are upgrading to. Netgear modems are easy to hookup, and have the best prices.

Its plug and play with Comcast. I was worried because these things are never as they are advertised on setup.. Worked easy with google wifi mesh system.

I replace my ISP's modem with this one because of the problems I was having with my wifi at home. Since installation of this modem I have had no problems and my wifi is much faster and more reliable.

A good cable modem. Compatible with many different internet carriers. I think it’s a bit over priced. However it dose a good job. I’m satisfied with my purchase so far!

absolutely love it works amazing extremely fast and reliable made my internet a lot faster and smoother. Never pay for another rental able modem from the cable company ever again! save money by buying one of these

This is a great modem for the price. It's honestly really not bad. It helped my internet speeds improved. It wasnt by much but all the speed counts.

Purchased to replace old modem that stopped working after several years. So far no issues/problems. Was easy to setup/install.

This modem has been great and is compatible with my Comcast service so I no longer have to pay a monthly rental of $10 to use theirs. I have had no issues and it was very easy to set up.

We originally purchased a more expensive modem but it didn't give us reliable internet. We returned it and bought this one. It was easy to set up and our internet is faster than ever

This modem, made a huge difference in my connection speed with Comcast, compared to the original leased Comcast modem. The main difference is the ability to use and combine more channels at once, while the other Comcast modem only uses 2. Speedtest.net indicated that my connection speed went from approx. 120Mbps to over 154Mbps.

The installation was simple and the directions were straightforward. Has improved our internet speed slightly from the modem our cable company provided for us. Not sure how it would be with gaming.