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Skriven 2012-01-31 16:09:14 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
     Kommentar till en text av Mark Hofmann (1:261/1304)
Ärende: FidoNews 29:04 [02/05]: General Articles
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Hello Mark,

On Thursday January 26 2012 20:03, you wrote to me:

 MH> Yes, I never turn away the chance to work on new technology.

Here it depends. Sometimes I happily jump on, sometimes I decline. Depends on
the price and the snakes in the grass.

 MH> My current cable modem is DOCSIS 2 (I own the modem vs. renting it).
 MH> If I'm selected for testing, I would get a free DOCSIS 3 dual stack
 MH> modem.  If I don't, I will still eventually buy a DOCSIS 3 modem.

A couple of month ago I deliberately downgraded from 20/3 Mbps to 10/1 Mbps.
The contract I had was going to be upgraded from 20 down, 3 up to 40 down, 5
up. For no extra charge. Nice you'd say. The snag was that my five year old
Motorola SBV5120E would be traded for a DOCSIS 3.0 modem. Do8ble nice you'd
say, wouldn;t you? But then I learned these new modems would have a build in
router. That, I did not like, I feared I would lose control and things like
port forwarding woukld no longer work. The downgrade saved me EUR 10 a month
and let me keep my old modem for a while....

I later learned the new DOCSIS 3.0 modems could be configured in bridge mode,
but that the user can not do that himself.

 MvdV>> It doesn't and TTMBOK, there is no road map. I say, it will be the
 MvdV>> end of S/2 and its spin offs.

 MH> I wouldn't be surprised to see a 3rd party IPv6 stack for OS/2
 MH> developed.

Well, you never know, but I think it is already too late. OS/2 has missed the
boat.


Cheers, Michiel

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