 HiVoltPremium
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Toronto, ON
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Re: Locks on DSL modems It depends what you mean by locking... The modems do have proprietary customer Bell branded firmware that locks out a lot of features inside, things like line stats, telnet access, other diagnostic and tweaking features users might like...
But they are not locked that they will only work on Bell. You can use any Bell modem with a 3rd party ISP.
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| Didn't Bell literally lock out use on 3rd party ISP in some 2wire modems by not letting you change the part of the username after the @ symbol? |
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HiVoltPremium
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| said by wondering :Didn't Bell literally lock out use on 3rd party ISP in some 2wire modems by not letting you change the part of the username after the @ symbol?
Maybe there was a certain firmware version that did that, but I personally know someone using an ex Bell 2wire on 3rd party ISP without a problem.
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 stephen d8An Important Message FromPremium
join:2005-11-25
Montreal, QC | reply to wondering
I used 2wire with vif internet before, agreed I did change the firmware but It worked fine
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taraf
join:2011-05-07
Stittsville, ON | reply to wondering
said by wondering :Didn't Bell literally lock out use on 3rd party ISP in some 2wire modems by not letting you change the part of the username after the @ symbol? Doubtful. That would lock out some of their own customers, as the residential customers and business customers have different formats for the login ID.
More likely, the 3rd party ISP in question was using different virtual cross connects that Bell uses. For Bell's network, the VPI/VCI should be 0/35. For some other networks, it isn't. |
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