cable modem firmware upgrade
Paul Stewart
paul at paulstewart.org
Fri Jan 30 14:00:03 UTC 2015
That brings back memories of some unidentified folks getting much higher
speeds and other features they may errr umm not been paying for ;) I miss
my LanCity cablemodem - it made a great spaceheater in the winters.....
-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Seastrom [mailto:rs at seastrom.com]
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 6:49 AM
To: Paul Stewart
Cc: 'Nathan Anderson'; 'A MEKKAOUI'; nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Re: cable modem firmware upgrade
"Paul Stewart" <paul at paulstewart.org> writes:
> That has been my experience as well (only from the RF side) and I would
> believe this was a design choice. The ISP usually wants to keep control
> over the firmware versions of the CM for various technical/support
> reasons versus having consumers mess with the firmware.
15 years ago, in certain circles it was well-understood how to load one's
own (possibly patched) software from the Ethernet side on the old LanCity
(pre-DOCSIS) cablemodems.
You can imagine what kind of hilarity ensued.
-r
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