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Docis vs. other standards?

A friend who knows a lot about these things told it to me this way:

DOCSIS will allow for a more stable network. They'll be able to offer synchronous speeds up and down. That's the upside.

The downside to DOCSIS is it will allow Rogers better tracking. That means more tiered service, and the ability to implement usage caps. That's why they're holding off on caps for now. Once DOCSIS is completely integrated, then they introduce the caps because they'll actually be able to track your usage a lot better than they can now.

P.S. I find it funny that Rogers will be using DOCSIS as it's a CDMA based system. Bell was the first company to use CDMA in Canada with their cellular network. Rogers steered away from that technology and went with older TDMA and now GSM. Looks like they've seen the light that is CDMA. That's just a personal ha ha.
[text was edited by author 2002-06-04 00:10:31]

reply to HiVolt
Rogers can tier without DOCSIS, should just be a matter of configuring the modem. However, DOCSIS allows you to set quality of service - so if I pay for higher QOS than you, the system would send a packet to me before it sent yours to you, so I'd see better throughput.

Right. That's also the reason why they haven't come out with a "high value" service yet. Makes sense.

So if I have a 4 year old Terayon TeraPro S-CDMA modem, will they be able to track usage? Or will they make me swap the modem?
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reply to HiVolt
damn and i thought rogers was implementing docsis to give us better service... instead its to cap us... lol

reply to HiVolt
the use of DOCSIS will also allow us (in the future, not yet though) to buy whatever cable modem we want (provided it's DOCSIS). this is currently the way Videotron in quebec works.

rogers hasn't implemented this option yet, they're still deploying their DOCSIS modem (either RCA or Ericsson) in Toronto. but soon we'll have a choice.

reply to skillton

said by skillton:

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damn and i thought rogers was implementing docsis to give us better service... instead its to cap us... lol

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HAHAHA , im not DOCSIS (found out but my modem is capable ) speeds are good yet speeds fluctuate greatly.
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reply to HiVolt
heh
i ping 5ms to my 1st hop!

reply to HiVolt
Reply from 64.86.206.129: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=248
Reply from 64.86.206.129: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=248
Reply from 64.86.206.129: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=248
Reply from 64.86.206.129: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=248

Ping statistics for 64.86.206.129:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 18ms, Maximum = 19ms, Average = 18ms

reply to HiVolt
Of course they can ... even if they can't do it on the TeraLink gateway, they can certainly do it by IP from the gateway router