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roblewis
11-08-2004, 16:50
When Broadband is installed it requests thay you register your computer. However following registration there is some difficulty in accessing NTL Site to find out which computers are recorded under a specific account number. Anyone aware of how this difficulty can be resolved:angel:
paulyoung666
11-08-2004, 16:52
hi and :welcome: to the site , are you not confusing this with the modem registration , i aint ever had to register a computer :confused:
scrotnig
11-08-2004, 16:53
Set Top Box broadband registers your computer, or more specifically, its MAC address.
paulyoung666
11-08-2004, 16:58
that was what i was thinking , it would be the mac address not the actual pc :)
....so it's the router thats 'registered', if you are using one
SMHarman
11-08-2004, 20:41
Unless your router has a cloned mac address from the PC
You can register upto 5 pc's via the STB Broadband, if you reach the limit then it would ask you to delete one/some of the already registered ones. The only time you can access this page is if either a refresh hit is sent to the STB or if you are adding a new pc onto the BB service in which case you would be getting an ip address starting with 10
Interesting that you can register five, when the T&C's seem to say you should only have a max of three :erm:
3 simultaneous, using a router - if you HAVE a router, you don't register the individual PCs, and if you DON'T have a router, you can register up to 5 PCs / replacement ethernet interfaces, but only USE one.
3 PCs connected in T+Cs? How do they know if you're behind router / NAT / firewall?
3 PCs connected in T+Cs? How do they know if you're behind router / NAT / firewall?
Very difficult to work out... but using complicated methods involving packet inspection it would be possible to find out.
Very difficult to work out... but using complicated methods involving packet inspection it would be possible to find out.
Not if you have a (decent) firewall correctly configured. ;)
Not if you have a (decent) firewall correctly configured. ;)
true... but i am guessing that less than 0.1% of ntl's users are in this situation... ;)
scrotnig
12-08-2004, 01:05
Every customer I come across seems to have a Firewall that blocks them from browsing and sending emails, but lets every trojan play with their machine with gay abandon.
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