[NCLUG] Cable @home questions

[Prescott Oelke]

 Not sure exactly what is meant by "provisioning" but I believe that people
are given specific modems depending on their "node", which is basically your
neighborhood as your cable modem sees it. Everyone in my area has the
Surfboard. A friend of mine who lives across town has an RCA modem and so
does everyone in his area with the service. Apparently the head end
equipment used to need specific instructions about how to communicate with
each specific brand of modem. To make this easier, the modems were given out
based on where you lived. All the configuration problems should be a thing
of the past since the DOCSIS standards were hammered out recently.
 As for the reviews, I've heard that the Surfboard is not one of the best
cable modems out there. It ranks towards the bottom in review after review,
yet I regularly get ratings of upwards of 2300kbps in bandwith tests (like
the one at 2wire and download.com), so I think that the performance has to
do with a lot of factors, not just the modem.

Prescott Oelke


On Fri, 13 Oct 2000 14:26:44 -0600, nclug at nclug.org wrote:

>  I had similar symptoms/problems when I first got my cable modem and after
>  two weeks of a very long story, they discovered that I was provisioned
for a
>  different brand cable modem than the RCA that they gave me.
>  
>  Now, I never got a satisfactory explanation as to what they meant by
>  'provisioning' but ever since they re-provisioned the thing (something
done
>  on their end), it has worked fine.  Anyone out there know?
>  
>  Oh yeah, I read some review of cable modems a while back and in the
review
>  the Surfboard was at the bottom of the spectrum and the RCA was in the
>  middle.  I can't remember now what was rated the highest.  I think this
was
>  in one of those Ziff-Davis online publications.
>  
>  hope this helps,
>  -rob





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