[ale] Need Cable Modem Recommendation

[DJ-Pfulio]

http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Treacherous-backdoor-found-in-TP-Link-routers-1822720.html
http://forum.tp-link.com/showthread.php?2614-Why-am-I-unable-to-quot-disable-quot-the-UPnP-in-my-TP-LINK-TL-WR1043ND-wireless-router

I own an amazing TP-link router that cannot be trusted with either their
firmware OR any of the after market ones.  It has been working great as
an AP **inside** my network, though none of my devices will connect
faster than 65Mbps to this "300Mbps" wifi router.

http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-cable-modem/ Might be helpful.


On 07/18/2016 03:48 PM, Chris Fowler wrote:
> I'm looking at this TP-LINK
> 
> https://www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-DOCSIS-Speed-Cable-TC-7610/dp/B010Q29YF8/ref=sr_1_17?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1468869416&sr=1-17&keywords=DOCSIS+3.0+cable+modem
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>     *From: *"Jeff Gehlbach" <jeffg at opennms.org>
>     *To: *"Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>,
>     cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
>     *Sent: *Monday, July 18, 2016 3:36:12 PM
>     *Subject: *Re: [ale] Need Cable Modem Recommendation
> 
>     On 07/18/2016 02:19 PM, Chris Fowler wrote:
> 
>     > No SNMP as I can tell.  Only way to see stats is via web
>     interface.  Not
>     > interested in writing a scraper.
> 
>     I wrangle SNMP for a living and, in my experience, consumer DOCSIS
>     modems speak SNMP only on their RF (coax) interfaces. This seems
>     intended to stop subscribers altering their provisioned data rates by
>     doing SNMP sets to the Ethernet interface. If you find a model that does
>     expose SNMP on the subscriber side, I would love to know about it.
> 
>     I don't deploy DOCSIS myself, so I'm no authority, but several of my
>     clients do.
> 
>     -jeff
> 
> 
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