Right after I bragged to Mike how I knew how DOCSIS works, I realized I really don’t. Thus, I found these interesting links on the Internet.
I’d love to put together a closed-circuit DOCSIS network to see how this stuff really works.
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DOCSIS home page
DOCSIS project home page
DOCSIS Server Project
Slashdot: Hybrid Community Networks
I called Time Warner Cable yesterday to find out the costs of Roadrunner Business Class service (motto: Same unreliability as normal Roadrunner, now for twice the cost!) I want to get service that I could use to host my home business websites. Turns out that some new packages will be debuting August 2nd. The most exciting one offers 768/768Kb and one static IP for $180/month.
Then again, what’s to stop me from ordering another residential cable modem and aggregating the two together? I already get 3 Mb/s down and 384 Kb/s up. If I bridged two cable modems together, that would give me an effective 6 Mb/s down and 768 Kb/s up for the cost of the low-end business service ($80). I’d have to do some tricker Dynamic DNS stuff to use two dynamic IPs, but I think it could be done.
