How a cable modem works (c. 2002)
Does anyone remember early cable modems allowing viewing other computers? What allowed that to happen?<p>I didn&#x27;t know enough about networking at the time, but I recall seeing this at friends houses in maybe the late 90&#x27;s. You could go into &quot;Networking&quot; in Windows, and see basically all the PCs on the street&#x2F;neighborhood. I assume this was with the PC directly connected (no router) and maybe using WINS, but I&#x27;d be curious if there&#x27;s more details behind why this could even happen. Did this also mean you&#x27;d be able to sniff other people&#x27;s network traffic?