> I wish they get some telemetry back from the modems and had some kind of KPI-driven process Another lifetime ago back when cable modems were still fairly new

> I wish they get some telemetry back from the modems and had some kind of KPI-driven process Another lifetime ago back when cable modems were still fairly new (and uncappable!) you could do this yourself. The modems would all be on RFC1918 space, and be completely reachable to anyone who thought to look. They had a standard SNMP MIB which you could use to graph out signal strength, bandwidth usage, etc. I of course fired up rrdtool and started mapping out my neighborhood. It was quite interesting to be able to detect problems and actually respond to them proactively. Since the modems were all default settings, you also had r/w SNMP access so you could write to the "reboot" OID among others. It was pretty trivial to script something that would boot off the habitual heavy users during peak times when you wanted to do some gaming. Fun times. But I also always wondered back then why the hell Comcast (or whomever) wouldn't pay some kid like me $15/hr to build the same telemetry.