 Morac
join:2001-08-30
Riverside, NJ
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| reply to cghh
Re: Why? While Comcast now has a self-provisioning system, when I got my first CableModem, I had to call into Comcast and read off the MAC and serial numbers off the modem in order for them to provision it.
That wasn't any different how CableCARDs work currently. When you put the CableCARDs into the device you are giving a set of 3 numbers (per card). Once the cable company has these three numbers, the card is paired and will work will all the channels you paid for.
The main difference between this setup and the old modem provisioning setup is that if you take the cards out of the device and move them elsewhere the pairing numbers change (even if you then put them back into the same device). This should be as easy to fix as calling into the cable company to give them the new number, but this isn't always the case (see my post later on in the thread).
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