Re:Re: Cable Modems for Large Networks

[Steven Friedrich]

Are you paying $100 per month for a cable modem, or is the cable bill that and includes the modem?  I bought the 2nd best motorola cable modem at walmart for less than 100.  The best costs about 150-200.  These modems bond cable channels and are fast, but you may oveload even them.!!

What is the model of you current modem?


On 3/25/2014 10:38 AM, David.I.Noel at gmail.com wrote:


> If someone knows a more appropriate forum/list/newsgroup/IRC channel
> for this question please let me know. Comcast is of little use. I was
> advised by their tech support to "ask someone at Best Buy", and the
> CAPTCHA on forums.cable-modem.net is broken so I can't register and
> ask there, soooo.. I don't really know where to go with this one.
> -David
> 
> On 3/25/14, David Noel <david.i.noel at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Can anyone recommend a DOCSIS-3 compatible cable modem that's designed
> > for large networks? I'm guessing something that could support 10,000
> > users would meet my needs.
> >
> > I'm doing some web crawling and it's overloading the standard SMC
> > model Comcast is leasing me. I have 4 servers running 100 threads
> > each, and combined they're making anywhere from 10-100 requests per
> > second. I'm guessing that's around the load a 10,000-user network
> > generates around peak? At any rate, my cable modem is completely
> > crapping out and I'm barely able to use 1/10th of my 50/10 line.
> >
> > My only other option is to make a best-guess based on
> > CPU/microcontroller specs, but I'd really rather not have to dig into
> > the documentation for every DOCSIS-3 compatible cable modem on the
> > market. It's either that, scale back my crawling, or fork over
> > $3,000/mo for a leased line/co-lo bill. Neither of which I'd like to
> > or am capable of doing. Surely there's hardware out there that will
> > let me make the most of my $100/mo cable modem...?
> >
> > -David
> >
> > PS: if anyone in Houston has a spare T3 and room for 4 1U's that they
> > wouldn't mind donating or leasing at a massive discount to a poor
> > developer, that would work too. You know, because of all those "spare"
> > T3's people have just lying around.
> >
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