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I was gonna buy a new DOCSIS 3.1 netgear modem for my gigabit service. Guess I won't be doing that now. I'm tired of this type of bullshit. It's exactly why I'
by ethanwillis 6y ago
I was gonna buy a new DOCSIS 3.1 netgear modem for my gigabit service. Guess I won't be doing that now. I'm tired of this type of bullshit.
It's exactly why I'm leaning really heavily towards Mikrotik for all of my networking gear at home. These types of devices are user hostile, bad for the environment, and set a precedent for a type of world we shouldn't want to live in.
- KitDuncan 6y agoI am also in the market for a docsis 3.1 modem. What are you going for?
- ethanwillis 6y agoWell, I'm running a SB6190 right now. I guess I'm going to go with either an SB8200 or a motorolla MB8600. One thing I like about the SB8200 is that if I ever go back to running a "business" connection at home I can have a second IP assigned to the second WAN port it has. I also plan on modifying the modem to fit into my network rack without a shelf like so: https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/ft579e/finally_got_fed_up_with_my_cable_modem_being/ https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/ft579e/finally_got... So the actual internal matter a little bit to me as well.
- banana_giraffe 6y agoBe aware the SB8200 runs a Puma chipset. For all I know modern versions of this chipset on modems are OK now, but I have a headache that will probably never going away trying to work around latency and DOS issues with one of these in a situation where I couldn't change out the DOCSIS modem for reasons that were out of my control. It's in my "never touch again for any reason" bucket now as a result.
- p1mrx 6y agoIncorrect, the SB8200 has a Broadcom BCM3390: http://en.techinfodepot.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Arris_SB8200 http://en.techinfodepot.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Arris_SB8200
- jeffbee 6y agoThere's really no better choice than Arris SURFboard if you want a DOCSIS bridge that just sits there and works all the time.
- ethanwillis 6y agoYea, that's what I'm leaning toward at the moment. I already have a Cisco 2921 router and cisco switches in various places throughout my house. So something dumb and performant is what I want. What I liked about the netgear modems is they do have models with a router built in without it being wifi which I would like to use as a failover. But I'll just keep my 2921 around as a failover if my new mikrotik router fails for some reason.
- Yknotknow 6y agoLOL. NO. Arris (formerly Motorola) modems have a overheating reliability issue. Especially the Surfboard ones you like. SB6666 Go search online. You'll see. I've had a number of them do this, and so I avoid their stuff.
- ethanwillis 6y agoThis is true, they definitely do have an overheating issue. That's why I was looking at other modems aside from upgrading my service. But I do plan on modding mine so it's not something I specifically would run into.
- jeffbee 6y agoAnecdotally my Arris SURFboard units have just sat in the dark and served perfectly, except that I had to replace one to get higher DOCSIS speeds. Maybe the overheating has something to do with local cable plant conditions from which I don't suffer?
- httpsterio 6y agoThe Arris box I currently have is a PITA to use. It takes several seconds to navigate between pages and its extremely illogical. I was just going to see if I can flash it with Openwrt or dd-wrt because it's just unusable.
- m463 6y agoI use mikrotik switches and run openwrt on them. rb2011 series and one rb750gl.