On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 8:17 PM David <[email protected]> wrote:
> And on a related matter, I'm told by a field technician that the Arris > boxes (HFC / Ethernet protocol converters) supplied to those with an HFC > connection are notoriously unreliable. One found that 15 out of 20 devices > in two boxes of 10 were faulty. That figure probably isn't typical, but > they certainly fail frequently and a simple box like that should have an > MTBF measured in decades. > > How is such organisational incompetence possible? > Arris is the largest provider of Cable boxes in the world (made even more true when they purchased Motorola cable business from Google a few years ago), and is what companies such a Comcast use as their standard cable modem boxes. Whilst any product can certainly have a bad batch, there's no way that the Arris boxes are "notoriously unreliable", nor that there's any level of "organisational incompetence" as a result of them being used. Scott _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
