Personal computing discussed
Moderators: renee, Steel, notfred
notfred wrote:It was when the DSLReports guys started digging in further to the latency issue that they found that they could DoS it.
I'm glad I'm on my VDSL connection, a lot less fuss than the cable stuff.
Kougar wrote:The issue started when Intel bought the Puma line from TI in 2010 and began using its x86 Atom cores to run it. The more things Intel tries to cram general-purpose Atom x86 into the worse it gets.
RAGEPRO wrote:Anybody have any idea if the Puma 5 chipset is affected at all? (Or possibly just garbage?) I have a Linksys CM3008 modem that uses that chip and it has given me nothing but trouble. Provider says all the issues are on my end, which does seem to be the case (power cycling the modem usually fixes any trouble.)
Glorious wrote:There's a rumor that, 3-4 years ago, Intel severely de-emphasized its product validation division in order to be more competitive with the churn of ARM SoCs.
just brew it! wrote:I guess Itanium is still (barely) hanging on too?
The chip is now shipping to test customers
Kougar wrote:The list of companies using this chipset is crazy large. Found a partial listing:
The Egg wrote:Kougar wrote:The list of companies using this chipset is crazy large. Found a partial listing:
What was your source? I admit to having never thought about cable modem chipsets, but poking around through specs and manuals on a few manufacturer sites yields no useful information.
Been using my SB6120 since 2010, and I never give it a second thought, aside from when the discussion comes up on here. If only all electronics worked so well
Starfalcon wrote:Just got a firmware update on my SB 6190 last night, so looks like they are working on trying to fix some of the issues.
Captain Ned wrote:Starfalcon wrote:Just got a firmware update on my SB 6190 last night, so looks like they are working on trying to fix some of the issues.
From what I've read they may be able to fix the latency issues in firmware, but the DoS issues are strictly hardware and thus unfixable.
just brew it! wrote:Intel really seems to be on a tear with the security holes this past week...
just brew it! wrote:Intel really seems to be on a tear with the security holes this past week...