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I had a cable modem in SE Florida in 2001. Adelphia TV. In Amsterdam it was UPC, though that might have been their name later on.
by OnlyMortal 5y ago
I had a cable modem in SE Florida in 2001. Adelphia TV.
In Amsterdam it was UPC, though that might have been their name later on.
- octorian 5y agoYeah, I'm from SE Florida, so that timing sounds about right. I recall when it was first being rolled out, it was some sort of weird hybrid service that did phone-up/cable-down. Not sure how long that nonsense lasted, because they weren't doing that anymore when my parents finally got it.
- matthewmcg 5y agoI had several iterations of this in S. Fla.--first "MediaOne" 1-way cable (downlink via a General Electric Sufboard SB-1000 ISA card with uplink via modem), then an external SB-1200 which was a combination cable modem downlink and modem uplink and an ethernet gateway. Finally, they threw all that away and gave us a DOCSIS modem. I still remember what a pain it was to get that 1-way modem working on linux. I had to print the documentation out from Windows, and then reboot. On the other hand, learning how to get that driver[1] to compile and loaded as a kernel module was very educational. [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/net/sb1000.c https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/net/sb...