RE: cable modem firmware upgrade

[Nathan Anderson <nathana () fsr com>]

On Wednesday, January 28, 2015 8:11 PM, A MEKKAOUI wrote:

> Anyone knows how to upgrade Motorola SB6120 cable modem firmware other
> than going through the internet provider? Your help will be appreciated.

My employer managed a handful of small DOCSIS networks for a while where 99% of the modems were Motorola, and as far as 
I know, there is no way to push a firmware update to the modem from the ethernet side...only from the RF side.  And 
trust me: I looked.  If I ever had to update the firmware on some batch of modems that weren't already deployed on a 
network, I would hook them up to a test CMTS that we had on the bench in order to do so.

I would strongly suspect that this is going to hold true for just about any DOCSIS modem.

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Nathan Anderson
First Step Internet, LLC
nathana () fsr com