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I started Comcast service about a year ago. They have a page of approved hardware on the web, and I bought a new modem off of that page. It seemed there was p
by lesterbuck 14y ago
I started Comcast service about a year ago. They have a page of approved hardware on the web, and I bought a new modem off of that page. It seemed there was plenty of choice even then.
I happened to pick a Motorola SB6150. What surprised me was that there was not a shred of technical information or any management screen. After the cable was installed in my house, my brand new modem was attached to the cable infrastructure and then downloaded Comcast firmware for about twenty minutes. After my modem had completely joined the Borg, only then was it allowed to offer me internet service. Sigh...
- mmmooo 14y agosadly, that is DOCSIS. You get to see very little (some modems provide signal levels, some debug info, etc) if anything at all. Everything else comes from/is controlled by the CMTS. Even in the enterprise grade modems like cisco hwic's, the docsis portion is almost entirely hidden from you.
- earl 14y agoI had the same experience. I have comcast and I bought a Motorola SB6121 on amazon because it was $85 and comcast charges you $7/mo to rent a cablemodem so you save money after only one year. Anyway, I plugged the modem in, it downloaded some config, rebooted, and started talking to comcast. It was pretty painless. And I just picked the cheapest docsis 3 modem off a list of probably 25 approved models.