[geeks] PCI Cable Modem

[Lionel Peterson]

On Apr 1, 2009, at 12:53 PM, Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>  
wrote:

> On Apr 1, 2009, at 09:29 , Jonathan J. M. Katz wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at gmail.com 
>> >wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone here have, or is anyone here familiar with PCI cable  
>>> modems?
>>>> I'm
>>>>
>>> I'm not sure such a beast exists. I think the market is too small.
>>
>>
>> They do seem to exist. The only one I found is the Zoom 5001, though.
>>
>> http://www.zoomtel.com/about/news01_05.html
>> http://www.linuxhardware.org/article.php?story=04/04/19/1324259
>>
>> It seems to be based off the DEC Tulip, so I wonder if it would  
>> work in
>> other OSes (BSD, Solaris x86, etc.)
>>
>> It will do 42Mbps down, which I think is the max most cable  
>> providers will
>> do. One friend of mine in the know from the Cable HW side of things  
>> told me
>> it was only DOCSIS 1.1 and not 1.2, but I'm not sure what that means.
>
> It means that it won't work with a lot of cable any more.
>
> Cox moved to DOCSYS 1.2, and a lot of people's old modems stopped  
> working or began to perform poorly after that.
>
> The EON upgrade of their network really boosted modem sales for  
> awhile.

Yeah, that Zoom device is pretty old ('mature'), it would be hit or  
miss with modern networks I imagine...

Lionel