[ian@huth]

Originally Posted by tallymanjohn

I gather from the engineer that the whole point of it is that NTL basically rent the modem to users so they aren't the users' property to sell in the first place, hence if the modem is attached to the network and it has not got a recognised MAC address, or is one which doesn't match up to the registered user then the connection will simply not be activated.

That is the case now, but when broadband was first introduced by NTL you had to buy the cable modem. There was no cable modem rental service.