Modem advice

Ant wrote:
In microsoft.public.windowsxp.general Mark Lloyd wrote:
On 11/26/20 11:51 PM, Arlen Holder wrote:

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BTW, has the docsys version cable companies support _ever_ changed?

When I first got cable internet (about 2006) the cable company used
DOCSIS 2 modems. Now those are unacceptable, only DOCSIS 3 modems will work.

BTW, DOCSIS = Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification.

When I first got cable on 3/10/2001, it was not DOCSIS compliant. It was
crap. Lots of outages, slow, etc. in the city. And then, Adelphia redid
its cable infrastructure to DOCSIS and digital which made everything
better!


To be fair though, at launch, cable distribution of Internet was a
mess. For example, in the city I'm in, they tried to run way too
many users off a central router. The result was at 9PM, people
were getting 1.5Mbit/sec??? or so. At the mall, Rogers had a booth,
attempting to get people to sign up for the service. An "angry mob"
circulated around the booth, mumbling about the speeds they were
getting. Looked very much like angry bees :-) I happened to step
too close to the bees, and one of the bees told me what
kind of speed I could expect. I flew off and continued on my way.

Rogers responded by closing the booth, so the bees had
nothing to buzz around. That takes all the fun out of it.

They've put more infrastructure into it since then.

Paul