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cable modem firmware upgrade
- Subject: cable modem firmware upgrade
- From: rs at seastrom.com (Rob Seastrom)
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 06:48:38 -0500
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]> (Paul Stewart's message of "Thu, 29 Jan 2015 05:22:44 -0500")
- References: <000501d03b79$942070e0$bc6152a0$@ca> <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
"Paul Stewart" <paul at 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