I live in a small town where the local cable tv system is going out of business. I was looking at buying it primary for its existing cable system and reusing its distribution for internet only. The head end equipment is old and falling apart and the cost of fixing it is not worth while. What I was wandering is there a way that I could hook up my existing Mikrotik system and send it out over the old catv cabling? That way I could use the existing distrubution with Cable modems. Any thoughts would be greatful.
Mike
WOW, Thats frekin great!
Do you have a boom truck to work on the lines. I’m sure they are in bad shape.
This may be a segway to installing fiber or copper for doing ADSL2+. I think it can do 2 up by 25 down. Then you could do IPTV. : )
Sorry, I’m allways thinking WAY TO BIG!
No boom truck yet 
But that would not be a problem. I just didnt know if there is something that I could plug in to our existing MT system then just feed it in to the lines. I want all the bells & Whisles running in MT and not some other system equipment. I see some CMTS from cisco 
but had hoped for something simpler.
Basicly I am looking for a PCI interface card that will act as the CMTS. Has any thing like this been built?
Well I guess it’s all going to depend on what the system is using technology wise. My experience is that most cable systems are fibre to the street box and coax from that to the home. Some old ones have coax or copper all the way which would mean you would have to run a DSL system. I should think DSL over coax would be really good. Might be a job authenticating users with the equipment they have in the home with the MT?
An awsome project though. I love that kind of thing