[CLUE-Tech] IDSL (was Of Security and Firewalls..)

[Brandon N]

yeah, I had one of the non DOCSIS complient modems a few years ago when
I worked for TCI at Home, the one I have now is, but they still have
bandwidth sharing problems, as well as a lack of qualified technical
people working the lines.

Brandon
--- ian <iguy at ionsphere.org> wrote:
> One of the fixes too (as I had that same problem) is that the first
> group
> of cable modems were crap.  Was when they firware upgraded the
> router.
> 
> There was large amounts of problems with the first modems not being 
> properly DOCSIS compliant and as such when the firware was upgraded
> to be "more" DOCSIS compliant many of the original modems broke. 
> 
> It was only when they got to true DOCSIS on the routers and gave me a
> 
> properly flashed cable modem when my problems stopped.
> 
> ian
> 
> 
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 08:19:21AM -0700, Grant Johnson wrote:
> > At 06:50 AM 03/22/2001 -0800, you wrote:
> > >I have a cable modem now, and frankly, compared to even IDSL, it
> sucks.
> > >  With a cable modem you have 30Mb shared bandwidth for everyone
> in your
> > >area, so it slows down during the busy times.  You also have a lot
> less
> > >reliable connection and more hops to get on a backbone.
> > >
> > >Brandon
> > Yes, my cable modem has slowed as more people have signed on.  It
> has 
> > slowed from about 8mb to about 2mb at the worst times of day. 
> Still faster 
> > than the 1.544mb of a T1, so....  I don't really mind.  Reliability
> is a 
> > REAL issue, usually they kill a router once a month or 
> > so.  Morons.  Anyway, for performance, my signal was way too hot
> coming in, 
> > and it hurt my performance, and reliability.  Do you occasionally
> lose RF 
> > frame sync (lights start blingking orange instead of being solid
> green) if 
> > so, here is the $1.29 solution:  Go to Radio Shack, and buy an RF 
> > attenuator.  There is one for less than 5 bucks, and it is designed
> for 
> > cable TV.  When I put it on my system, everything got better, right
> 
> > away.  I had been fighting lost RF sync for months.  The techs had
> been out 
> > twice a month, and I was on my third cable modem, but they never
> did figure 
> > it out.
> > 
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