Cable Modems

[chy at genuity.com (Chuck Young)]

Sorry Jerry,

I meant the cable side, not the ethernet.  Currently most users expect 300k
up and 1.5 Mb down (to them from the net).  Purportedly, there was a way to
get 1.5 in both directions with the LanCity.  Not that it matters, because I
never saw proof that it could be engineered not to limit upstream bandwidth
to 300k.  Besides proof-of-concept, it is uninteresting.

I'm sure someone from AT&T would be troubleshooting the neighborhood segment
and find you/me hogging upstream bandwidth and terminate your agreement for
gross violations of something :-)  Maybe not today, and maybe not tomorrow,
but someday somewhere...

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Chuck Young
Security Consulting
Genuity E-Services
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-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-admin at blu.org [mailto:discuss-admin at blu.org]On Behalf Of
Jerry Feldman
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 1:11 PM
To: discuss at blu.org
Subject: RE: Cable Modems


I believe that the LAN City is cabable of doing 10Mbps bidirectional. Not
sure about the others.
The only issue on the Lan City is that it is not DOCSIS compliant, which is
ok for use here.
On 11 Feb 2002 at 11:57, Chuck Young wrote:

> I've been using the Toshiba for about a year with no issues.
>
> I had heard that the LanCity can be cranked up for push speed greater than
> 300k, but it was just a M-1 rumor.  I also think the LanCity uses more
power
> as it runs a little hotter - that radial fin heatsink reminds me of my
first
> European (DKW)motocross bike :-)
Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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