[geeks] PCI Cable Modem

[Shannon Hendrix]

On Apr 1, 2009, at 09:29 , Jonathan J. M. Katz wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Lionel Peterson  
> <lionel4287 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Does anyone here have, or is anyone here familiar with PCI cable  
>> modems?
>>> I'm
>>>
>> I'm not sure such a beast exists. I think the market is too small.
>
>
> They do seem to exist. The only one I found is the Zoom 5001, though.
>
> http://www.zoomtel.com/about/news01_05.html
> http://www.linuxhardware.org/article.php?story=04/04/19/1324259
>
> It seems to be based off the DEC Tulip, so I wonder if it would work  
> in
> other OSes (BSD, Solaris x86, etc.)
>
> It will do 42Mbps down, which I think is the max most cable  
> providers will
> do. One friend of mine in the know from the Cable HW side of things  
> told me
> it was only DOCSIS 1.1 and not 1.2, but I'm not sure what that means.

It means that it won't work with a lot of cable any more.

Cox moved to DOCSYS 1.2, and a lot of people's old modems stopped  
working or began to perform poorly after that.

The EON upgrade of their network really boosted modem sales for awhile.


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