Bticoin has basically nothing to do with the price of GPUs.

Haters comment wasn't directed at the individual poster, but all those piling onto the conspiracy side of things. We are better, in technology and attitude, than any traditional ma-bell telco is my position, and that is it. Now, I hope, we are back to the point that you must have exactly the right hardware, because 3rd party hardware is a nightmare. Buying millions of modems from a certain vendor gives a cable company a certain leverage. This isn't bad for the customer experience, and, in theory, saves some money somewhere. If that savings reaches the customer or the shareholder, is a function of the marketplace. How's that for shill language?

The router portion (second device inside the same box as the modem) is not configured via the TFTP transfer of the DOCSIS config files today. Hoping to see that kind of firmware become available from the vendors some day soon! I do work in the industry, but nobody pays me to share my opinions on slashdot = not a shill.

The static IP thing has to do with how static IPs are managed. The modem needs to be configured to participate in routing (RIPv2). That configuration includes a shared secret key, that the cable company can't share with customers for security reasons. Keep on hating though.. And to comment on the bring your own modem thing, the cable company must do frequent software upgrades to it's CMTSs just in order to keep up with the ever increasing demand for bandwidth. Those upgrades should be lab tested ahead of time. Having a large population of XYZ brand modems to test against causes that testing process to be much more complicated, or even impossible. This lack of testability, and lack of relationship with the modem vendor (cable company didn't but the piece of shit, you did), often results in the experience of "that damn greedy cable company broke my modem". Keep on hating though. What the cable company doesn't want to happen, is for their software/hardware upgrades to make their phone ring. It costs them plenty to answer the calls - 3 or 4 calls to their call center costs roughly the same as they would pay for a modem.

Probably sounds pretty bad to whales and dolphins no matter what.

Is this going to be a DOCSIS or PON or what? Any mention of the specific technology they are planning to use?