Remstream REM-8200 DOCSIS 2.0 Cable Modem w/Ethernet, USB & 2VoIP Phone Jacks
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From: Paul on 7 Jun 2010 18:09 JD wrote: > Has anyone heard of this modem? > > The specs seem very impressive > > Remstream REM-8200 DOCSIS 2.0 Cable Modem w/Ethernet, USB & 2 VoIP Phone > Jacks > - 40 Mbps downstream and 10 Mbps upstream speeds. > > and the cost is about $30. > > The warranty is 90 days, which appears to be saying something. > > TIA Perhaps the availability of those units, is fallout from this ? http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=180530&site=lr_cable "Rembrandt has made some limited stabs at developing a modem business amid charges from the cable MDL that Remstream's sole purpose is to wage an "illicit and anti-competitive scheme" to obtain injunctive relief against the nation's major MSOs." So they may have been making cable modems, with the idea they'd use their patent portfolio, to have other cable modem manufacturer's products barred from entering the country. ("Making" in this context, means paying someone to contract manufacture them, likely using some standard design and silicon. They wouldn't be starting from scratch, setting up a factory of their own and so on.) There is one comment here, that says the modem works fine, but that the VOIP doesn't work. http://www.amazon.com/Remstream-REM-8200-DOCSIS-Internet-Ethernet/product-reviews/B0031PXGR0/ref=sr_1_2_cm_cr_acr_pop_hist_all?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1&qid=1275947132&sr=8-2 As long as the DOCSIS standard is acceptable for the application, at that price it's probably worth playing with. There is a version 3 for DOCSIS now. But if the cap on your cable is met by those specs, then you probably don't care. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docsis Paul |