[177662] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: cable modem firmware upgrade
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Stewart)
Fri Jan 30 09:02:09 2015
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From: "Paul Stewart" <paul@paulstewart.org>
To: "'Rob Seastrom'" <rs@seastrom.com>
In-Reply-To: <86k304jxpl.fsf@valhalla.seastrom.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 09:00:03 -0500
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That brings back memories of some unidentified folks getting much higher
speeds and other features they may errr umm not been paying for ;) I miss
my LanCity cablemodem - it made a great spaceheater in the winters.....
-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Seastrom [mailto:rs@seastrom.com]
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 6:49 AM
To: Paul Stewart
Cc: 'Nathan Anderson'; 'A MEKKAOUI'; nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: cable modem firmware upgrade
"Paul Stewart" <paul@paulstewart.org> writes:
> That has been my experience as well (only from the RF side) and I would
> believe this was a design choice. The ISP usually wants to keep control
> over the firmware versions of the CM for various technical/support
> reasons versus having consumers mess with the firmware.
15 years ago, in certain circles it was well-understood how to load one's
own (possibly patched) software from the Ethernet side on the old LanCity
(pre-DOCSIS) cablemodems.
You can imagine what kind of hilarity ensued.
-r