I know I am going to come off sounding ignorant, that said.. I thought that DOCSIS 3.0 was supose to be backward compatible with DOCSIS 2.0 both at the Cable Modem and the Cable modem termination system.??
anyways.. On Feb 26, 10:32 pm, Dan <dantear...@gmail.com> wrote: > At 2:42 PM -0800 2/26/2009, Scott Fiore wrote: > > >own a Motorola Surfboard 5220 modem (about 1 1/2 years old) that I > >connect to my Airport Express. I received a call from my internet > >provider this morning notifying me that because this modem is being > >discontinued by Motorola, it will soon stop working and I will need to > >buy or rent a new modem. Does this sound right? > > yes, and no. And welcome to the quandry posed by owning your own > telecom gear instead of renting... > > Due to the way cable modems work, the ones on a provider's network > *must* be fully supported by their CMTS (head end router). I think > you'll find that your ToS states that they can tell you what make & > model modems are permitted. > > That being said... It's baloney that the modem is going to stop > working just because Motorola is discontinuing that model. Total > baloney. The truth is that the cable company simply no longer wants > to support that model, so they're going to unprovision them (shut > them down intentionally). Why? Two main reasons: 1) Evil company > etc. 2) They're upgrading to DOCSIS 3.0, and your modem doesn't > support that faster protocol. > > HTH, > - Dan. > -- > - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
