Originally Posted by Paul

NTL would see the same MAC on 2 modems and know someone was up to something. No doubt both modems would then lose service.

Originally Posted by roseandjim

Just a quick question here -- if someone was paying for ntl's service but had an old modem and couldn't get their full paid for speed why not buy a 250 from ebay and flash the mac address? Thereby avoiding ntl's £50 charge.
No theft - No fraud - where's the problem?

Originally Posted by roseandjim

Just a quick question here -- if someone was paying for ntl's service but had an old modem and couldn't get their full paid for speed why not buy a 250 from ebay and flash the mac address? Thereby avoiding ntl's £50 charge.
No theft - No fraud - where's the problem?

Originally Posted by James Henry

It would offend some dogooders on here.

Originally Posted by unlimited

Because at this time 250 modems will only work for a subbed customer. The normal methods to change the mac address does not work on these modems. Therefor they are at this time nothing more than a blue doorstop to those that have not paid for one from NTL.


No one pm me asking how i know. I will not give out details on how to steal cable and therefor will be classed as one of those dogooders :Yikes: now there is a interesting perspective. :) unlimited as a dogooder :LOL:

Originally Posted by James Henry

Gah I only put in the bit about how service couldn't be guaranteed, I didn't want to be more specific :p:

You a dogooder, nah you aren't jumping up and down screaming about this. Fundamentally if it were to work I wouldn't see a problem with it so long as the person in question were paying for the relevant subscription, would you?