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Originally Posted by Sirius
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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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.
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I'm probably missing something here, but are you sure about that?
An IP address is mapped to a particular host (for example mine is xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx.cable.ubr05.craw.blueyonder.co.uk). Wouldn't Virgin just look on that UBR, and not the one where the cloned modem was (assuming I was doing the downloading)?
I can see that if no regard was given to the MAC address/UBR comination then a letter might be sent to the wrong person, but wouldn't this be fairly easy to refute (and flag up the existence of a clone on a particular UBR)?