[GRLUG] GRLUG Saturday Social

[Bob Kline]

Indeed.  And as I read the material,
one would need a DOCSIS 3 modem
if one wanted to get Comcast's 50Mbps
"business" service.  Just barely, but it's
over the 42 Mbps bite rate limit that
goes all the way back to DOCSIS 1.

   -- Bob


On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 9:19 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:

> The practical question that was asked, though, was whether or not it
> makes any sense to purchase a DOCSIS 3.0 modem if one won't plan to
> purchase services that require those bandwidths.
>
> To that end, there's a question of the compatibility matrix between
> loops and modems of DOCSIS 2 and 3. (I.e. will a DOCSIS 2.0 modem work
> on a DOCSIS 3.0 loop? Are DOCSIS 3.0 modems guaranteed to be
> backwards-compatible with DOCSIS 2.0 loops?)
>
> On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
> > A little more on a topic that came
> > up - DOCSIS modems.  Apparently
> > DOCSIS 3 adds no speed per channel,
> > but allows a number of channels to be
> > grouped.
> > If it read the material correctly, the
> > maximum speed for an implemented
> > DOCSIS 2 is 120 Mbps in Canada,
> > and 107 Mbps in the US.
> > Now if Comcast would just provide the
> > multiple channels.
> >     -- Bob
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm here. Dagny's here, as is Bob Kline.
> >>
> >> On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > I plan to be there.
> >> >
> >> > On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Ben Rousch <brousch at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> >> Is the GRLUG Saturday Social happening today at its usual time (2PM -
> >> >> 6PM) and place (BiggbySubway in Grandville)?
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