1) Can a cable ISP even route traffic between residential customers without schlepping out to a POP?
2) Where does the upload bandwidth limitation live? Because if it's in the cable modem itself or the nearest upstream connection, this doesn't help much. There is probably much more capacity between the OpenConnect and the home than the home and its nextdoor neighbor.
> 1) Can a cable ISP even route traffic between residential customers without schlepping out to a POP?
Guess it depends on the ISPs implementation but in my experience, yes, some ISPs let you route traffic between residential customers, granted you've setup your router correctly.
> 2) Where does the upload bandwidth limitation live?
In my experience, the limitation lived further away than the residential building, as we hit our own equipment's limits before we hit any other limits.
2) Where does the upload bandwidth limitation live? Because if it's in the cable modem itself or the nearest upstream connection, this doesn't help much. There is probably much more capacity between the OpenConnect and the home than the home and its nextdoor neighbor.