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Originally Posted by zekeisaszekedoes
Seemed pretty logical, the way he was describing it. I had a feeling it could be possible if, for example, you moved house and wanted to use your existing kit elsewhere so would be using the same modem MAC in different premises. I can tell BS a mile off and nothing he said gave me that impression.
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That is different as your existing kit is reassigned to your new account, but again you cannot use a modem bought off Ebay or given by a friend as it will most likely still be listed on the original account or it will no longer be in the inventory, either way it will never be added to any account regardless of what the agent told you, when Nopanic reads this he will confirm this as well as he works in that area.
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Originally Posted by zekeisaszekedoes
I'm not worried about that as they're easily and cheaply available. The point is having one and being able to register it on a different account to the one it was assigned to.
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Originally Posted by zekeisaszekedoes
I refuse to believe it's impossible to take a used one and reassign it or be given one not registered to any account just yet, which is why I'd like to call an engineer out and see how it stands, come to some arrangement. Or perhaps call retentions up and get a little more assertive. Because after all, if I'm looking to upgrade to 50Mbps which means more money for VM I don't see why I shouldn't be able to stay well away from the Super Hub, especially when I'm talking about using kit that until very recently VM deemed fine for their higher speed packages before foisting the Super Hub on everyone.
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If you rang up with a modem that was not yours and we rang the relevant department they would refuse to add it as it is not allowed and the agent would be reported and probably taken to one side by a manager to explain why they went against protocol.
I would take anything that agent told you with a sack of salt.
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Originally Posted by zekeisaszekedoes
Well I'm not one of the folk that don't get it. As I've posted, these things are easy to come by second hand, it's probably just a matter of circumventing some or other rule or methodology to have them removed from previous accounts and assigned to new ones. I'm sure an inventive and unscrupulous employee could register any compatible modem to a VM account, it's just against T&Cs/whatever else to do so. Although VM might like to consider the idea because it could give them an edge against more expensive smaller rivals like AAISP who offered "tailored" packages supporting almost any hardware and offer luxuries like true IPv6 support concurrent with limited old IPv4, the FAT32 to IPv6s NTFS.  |
I cannot circumvent the inventory as I do not have access to their database and only that department can access the database in that way.
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Originally Posted by jb66
I tried it and my PDA displayed hit failed  |
Part of the reason they are no longer issuing VMNG300 modems is due to it not being able to channel bond in the same way as the Superhub.