Rhobite
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Cambridge, MA
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| reply to Ronin4740
Re: If it's my hardware........
It's not legal to receive channels you don't pay for. But you have to fault the cable companies for putting trusted equipment in the hands of consumers. Granted there's not much they can do technically (I'm not talking about whether it's illegal or not) about protecting TV signals, but they can certainly enforce caps at the headend rather than the CM.
It's against the AUP to sniff your neighbors' traffic, but the fact that this is even possible is 100% the fault of the cable companies. I don't even have cable HSI anymore - but it's kind of shocking that I could dust off my old SB4200, take the filter off my cable, and sniff my neighbors' traffic, without even being a subscriber. |
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b_zen
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join:2002-07-24
Saint Louis, MO
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 ·TTNet
| On to the point!
The hypocrisy of the ISP's and manufacturers (to a lesser degree)... Since they can't secure it from the start (technically, or due to cost) they'll leave it in the hands of users, hardware is usually having a valuable cost on the market  , then reprimand you if you find a way to set the monkey loose...
The day I find a non-technical way of uncapping my modem, you bet I'll try it
By the way, how do you "re"cap your modem???
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insomniac
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Naperville, IL
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·AT&T Midwest
| To re-cap, you should just be able to reset it and let it get the config file from the ISP instead of the customized one from your spoofed TFTP server, right? That's how I understand it, but I have no experience in actually uncapping my modem because I've never seen the risk of losing my service as "worth it."
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Jeremy341
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said by b_zen  :
By the way, how do you "re"cap your modem???
You "re"boot it, and allow it to get the configuration file off the ISP's TFTP server like it's supposed to. |
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b_zen
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