Motorola CyberSURFR
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Motorola CyberSURFR Cable Modem | |||||||||||||
Wikipedia | Motorola | ||||||||||||
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dd-wrt | Status Unknown | ||||||||||||
OpenWrt | Status Unknown | ||||||||||||
Tomato any flavor | Incompatible | ||||||||||||
Platform | |||||||||||||
Brand • Model • Rev | Motorola CyberSURFR | ||||||||||||
Type | cable modem | ||||||||||||
CPU1 ![]() | Motorola Model? | ||||||||||||
Flash1 Chip | Brand? Model? | ||||||||||||
Flash1 Size | ? MiB | ||||||||||||
RAM1 Size | ? MiB | ||||||||||||
RAM1 Chip | Brand? Model? | ||||||||||||
ETH chip1 | Motorola Model? | ||||||||||||
Ethernet Port Count | 1-10MbE-LAN | ||||||||||||
Wired Standard | IEEE 802.3i | ||||||||||||
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Expansion IF types | Type F (female), DB-9 (male) | ||||||||||||
Power | ? VDC, ? A | ||||||||||||
Connector type | DIN (5-pin) | ||||||||||||
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Retail | |||||||||||||
(Est.) release date | December 1996 | ||||||||||||
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For a list of all currently documented Motorola chipsets with specifications, see Motorola.
For a list of all currently documented Motorola devices with specifications, see Motorola.
Overview
This is a non-DOCSIS cable modem.
- Specifically, it uses Motorola's proprietary CDLP system.
- See Cable modem#CDLP on Wikipedia for a bit more info.
Early @Home Network installations may have been the principal
- users of these modems.. though some post @Home networks
- may have kept the legacy network going for a bit longer.
Links of Interest
- On wap.org (front, back images)
- The front of the Motorola CyberSURFR has a curved face plate and six small lights.
- The Comcast@Home logo is a stick-on label on the otherwise gray metal case.
- Instead of two RJ-11 telephone jacks on the back, it has a "cable TV" connector
- (female Type F connector), an RJ-45 10BASE-T Ethernet port, an odd 9-pin D-shell
- (DB 9-pin male) connector for "testing," and a tiny reset button.
- Hacking The Cable Modem (archive.org)