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Originally Posted by Horace
Re: cloned modems.
The BPI collects IP addresses not MAC addresses so that completely negates the possibility a customer being warned/advised due to someone else using the same mac addy on a cloned modem. Pity because it might of pushed VM to do even more about the cloning problem if they had thousands of irate customers suing them.
I suppose the conclusion might be reached by a lot of people who are tier hopping, i.e. paying for the lowest tier and using a cloned modem for 20meg to cancel the subscription altogether due to worries about the BPI.
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So when a ip is given to virginmedia and they then look on the ubr what do you think they check that ip address against. Answers on a postcard to
The mac address.
on the DHCP
Linked to the account database
Your address
And before you ask :-
I have worked in the past on Cable modem infrastructure and ADSL infrastructure. Then i got better and left.
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Originally Posted by Kymmy
Surely though they'll be a register of two IP's for that MAC address and this would be flagged up on VM's system putting in doubt that the account holder is the culprit.
Kymmy
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But it depends on how busy the person looking into each account is. If that person cannot be arsed to check each DHCP server for Each of the areas that mac is in then some poor unfortunate will get a letter.
If VM could check that easily, Would you not think they would be able to stop the clones in the first place.
The fact of the matter is someone WILL get a letter even when they have not been using P2P but the **** bag who has cloned there modem and IS using P2P will not.
It kinda makes a mockery of all this.