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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2018-08-23 7:35 p.m., Sebastian
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On Aug 24, 2018, at 00:32, Mikael Abrahamsson <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:swmike@swm.pp.se"><swmike@swm.pp.se></a> wrote:
On Thu, 23 Aug 2018, Sebastian Moeller wrote:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">router should be able to handle at least the sold plan's bandwidth with its main CPU...)
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<p>Looking at this as an economic decision, were I a modern ISP, I
would want <br>
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<li>as few different devices as possible</li>
<li>good margins on each</li>
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<p>and I would not care about whether the smarts were in the CPU or
a controller, as my only interests would lie in solving an linear
programming problem for the least cost in base cost, inventory and
replacement costs.</p>
<p>A quick look at Tek Savvy (our best non-monopolist isp) shows
that have one modem they rent...<br>
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<p>plus a large list of ones they support for a given speed range,
from which they chose their best priced one:</p>
<pre>Manufacturer Model Hardware Version Firmware Version</pre>
<pre>Cisco DPC3848N 2.0 dpc3800-v303r2042161-160115a</pre>
<pre>Cisco DPC3848V 1.0 dpc3800-v303r2042162-160115a</pre>
<pre>Technicolor DPC3848V 1.0 dpc3800-v303r2042162-160620a <b><- their favorite</b></pre>
<pre>Technicolor TC4350 3.0 50041.1.19.0</pre>
<pre>Hitron CDA3 1A 4.5.0.14</pre>
<pre>Hitron CDA3-35 1.A 6.1.2.26</pre>
<pre>TP-Link TC7650 1.0 v1.0.3 Build 20161117 Rel358190</pre>
<pre>Hitron CGNM-3550 1A 4.5.11.8-TPIA</pre>
<pre>Hitron CGN3-RES 1A 4.2.4.11RES</pre>
<pre>SmartRG SR808ac 1.0
--dave
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David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify
System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest
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