2 edits | MAC addr of CM or addr of device attached to CM ? Sounds good to me. But which MAC addr(s) will it be monitoring? If it is the CM, it would include all the sytem overhead. But if it the router or PC, it would be almost all real end user data. |
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| Re: Mac addr of CM or addr of device attached to Cm ? what if a hacker is uncapping useing a cloned mac ? wont you get charged ? |
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1 edit | said by NoOneButMe:what if a hacker is uncapping useing a cloned mac ? wont you get charged ? If that does occur, then I think you should worry more about someone freeloading off of your bill to begin with. I'm sure Comcast would be able to track down identical MAC addresses.
Edit: okay, maybe not so easily track down  |
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| ya its easy to clone and as long as comcast dont flag that acount thay wont see the cloned modems you see some of there markets are kinda old in some places so i can see this as a prob |
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join:2003-09-16
Columbus, OH | reply to fAcEtIOUs
Re: MAC addr of CM or addr of device attached to CM ? It would have to be by the modem MAC. You realize how insanely simple it would be if they tracked by the LAN-side MAC for someone to simply clone in a new one and bam! empty cap bucket to use. Granted, that's putting it simply and they could add other checks if they wanted.
But it would be a piece of cake and extremely customer friendly to just track by the modem MAC. It's already tied near-permanently to the account and can't be changed except by a CSR for something like a modem swap and even then has a paper trail so a cap bucket can transfer over to a new modem if done the middle of the month. And the overhead introduced for such a thing would be far less than trying to jerry-rig a system to track by router/pc MAC or, god forbid, by IP alone.
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | reply to fAcEtIOUs
said by fAcEtIOUs:Sounds good to me. But which MAC addr(s) will it be monitoring? If it is the CM, it would include all the sytem overhead. But if it the router or PC, it would be almost all real end user data. Comcast can't see past the router. This would only make sense for people with multiple public IPs from Comcast, and who on earth does that?
Your router kills the ethernet layer continuity between your LAN and the cable modem. |
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