From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 25 16:26:39 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 399DBABC for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 16:26:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-x22b.google.com (mail-wg0-x22b.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c00::22b]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C7574170 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 16:26:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f43.google.com with SMTP id x13so497660wgg.14 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 09:26:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=kh6GgLU6pVrT6LE5XU/+aq8zxhx4S0EQIsTCmDuogWY=; b=KO6CGNXkmcx5ctKAUQ37Cfd7gei39BRw3OpfJsaVBzobzCBoPt2MHLPlZuqDMOO0zm nwRN+wzlC1vqh5fmT29v2zdTXOOnC3o39ifIWp65mXvA8DgHM/J2Kh9dYAKFUuD5iLcP ptN2P6EBg+NahyNtrlmpPlVq2sOs+zT/Hf6EmfngXD1trSK3f1b3HVKVBcHDQGfLYhPe ZHYj1B44kE2XLC53MhAPO0b68h8/Bq4w8FbFfTDFj3uxzugchMTjQZTr76H7E4utsQfx CE+zDYAL7v2NGCmVHMtsxMCqlDOHi7z+zsaMQmCHviJyVWyuZ265rY3Xww9L7N40xywX iBHg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.180.23.99 with SMTP id l3mr24999697wif.47.1395764797154; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 09:26:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.217.55.138 with HTTP; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 09:26:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 11:26:37 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Re: Cable Modems for Large Networks From: David Noel To: Steven Friedrich Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list Reply-To: David.I.Noel@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 16:26:39 -0000 > Are you paying $100 per month for a cable modem, or is the cable bill tha= t > and includes the modem? That's the ballpark for my total bill from Comcast -- internet + modem. > I bought the 2nd best motorola cable modem at > walmart for less than 100. The best costs about 150-200. These modems b= ond > cable channels and are fast, but you may overload even them.!! I'm tempted to give one of the $200 models a try but figured I'd fish for recommendations first. I hope there's something out there that can do what I need it to do. Co-locating or a leased T3 would run 30x what I'm paying for this 50/10 line. :-/ > What is the model of you current modem? SMCD3G -David On 3/25/14, Steven Friedrich wrote: > Are you paying $100 per month for a cable modem, or is the cable bill tha= t > and includes the modem? I bought the 2nd best motorola cable modem at > walmart for less than 100. The best costs about 150-200. These modems b= ond > cable channels and are fast, but you may oveload even them.!! > > What is the model of you current modem? > > > On 3/25/2014 10:38 AM, David.I.Noel@gmail.com wrote: > > >> If someone knows a more appropriate forum/list/newsgroup/IRC channel >> for this question please let me know. Comcast is of little use. I was >> advised by their tech support to "ask someone at Best Buy", and the >> CAPTCHA on forums.cable-modem.net is broken so I can't register and >> ask there, soooo.. I don't really know where to go with this one. >> -David >> >> On 3/25/14, David Noel wrote: >> > Can anyone recommend a DOCSIS-3 compatible cable modem that's designed >> > for large networks? I'm guessing something that could support 10,000 >> > users would meet my needs. >> > >> > I'm doing some web crawling and it's overloading the standard SMC >> > model Comcast is leasing me. I have 4 servers running 100 threads >> > each, and combined they're making anywhere from 10-100 requests per >> > second. I'm guessing that's around the load a 10,000-user network >> > generates around peak? At any rate, my cable modem is completely >> > crapping out and I'm barely able to use 1/10th of my 50/10 line. >> > >> > My only other option is to make a best-guess based on >> > CPU/microcontroller specs, but I'd really rather not have to dig into >> > the documentation for every DOCSIS-3 compatible cable modem on the >> > market. It's either that, scale back my crawling, or fork over >> > $3,000/mo for a leased line/co-lo bill. Neither of which I'd like to >> > or am capable of doing. Surely there's hardware out there that will >> > let me make the most of my $100/mo cable modem...? >> > >> > -David >> > >> > PS: if anyone in Houston has a spare T3 and room for 4 1U's that they >> > wouldn't mind donating or leasing at a massive discount to a poor >> > developer, that would work too. You know, because of all those "spare" >> > T3's people have just lying around. >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Sent from my PlayStation=C5=BDVita system >