When I read this, it brought back memories of being back in '98 or so, when I got the first cable modem Charter had to offer. It came in the form of an ISA car

When I read this, it brought back memories of being back in '98 or so, when I got the first cable modem Charter had to offer. It came in the form of an ISA card that used my existing dialup modem for the upstream and the cable for the downstream, and I'm pretty sure was not DOCSIS compliant as the cable co had to swap all the things out a year later. It only supported Windows 98 (barely), no NT and definitely no Linux. When it worked though it certainly was fast, but was weird having 10 Mbps down and 33.6Kbps up. So three cheers for DOCSIS and 2-way cable plants!