On Dec 11, 2013, at 9:11 AM, Eric Oosting <eric.oosting@gmail.com> wrote:
It brings a tear to my eye that it takes:
1) specific, and potentially high end, CPE for the res; 2) specific and custom firmware, unsupported by CPE manufacturer ... or anyone;
I think this says more about Randy's specific choice/luck in hardware than the general state of play. Unfortunately in low end CPE land hardware ships with a specific set of software features, and generally there is no (economic) model for the vendors to ever offer new features. People don't buy "support" for low end CPE. The way to get new software is to buy new hardware, which is really only a good solution when the feature set required is stable over long periods of time. There are plenty of low end residential style boxes that "just work" with Comcast's setup out of the box with vendor images. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/