Re: [AusNOG] Hotel DOCSIS recommendations

2018-03-05 Thread Jamie Lovick
Hi, Depending on the coax cable used, you may get a lot of noise from TV. RG6 is preferred as a minimum. RG59 doesn't really cut it. Also, watch out for dodgy splitters used in the walls. I have seen some coax just stripped back and wires twisted together to split the cable. If the cable and split

Re: [AusNOG] Hotel DOCSIS recommendations

2018-03-05 Thread Craig Askings
Hi Cameron, Yes it is possible. I've done it with the Huawei mini CMTS (its limited to 255 cable modems). The two big issues I've found is that almost every existing installation will have uni directional amplifiers, so you will need to replace them with bi directional amps and dodgy compressio

[AusNOG] Hotel DOCSIS recommendations

2018-03-05 Thread Cameron Murray
Guys, Wild one but we have a hotel customer we are looking to deliver internet to each room and traditionally we would go VDSL however in this case the building is 30+ years old and the Phone point is nowhere near power or a suitable hiding spot. This lead me to think of a HFC style deployment an