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Re: cable modem firmware upgrade
From: Rob Seastrom <rs () seastrom com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 06:48:38 -0500
"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
Current thread:
- cable modem firmware upgrade A MEKKAOUI (Jan 28)
- RE: cable modem firmware upgrade Nathan Anderson (Jan 28)
- RE: cable modem firmware upgrade Frank Bulk (Jan 28)
- RE: cable modem firmware upgrade Paul Stewart (Jan 29)
- RE: cable modem firmware upgrade Sam Hayes Merritt, III (Jan 29)
- Re: cable modem firmware upgrade Scott Helms (Jan 30)
- Re: cable modem firmware upgrade Rob Seastrom (Jan 30)
- RE: cable modem firmware upgrade Paul Stewart (Jan 30)
- RE: cable modem firmware upgrade Nathan Anderson (Jan 28)