Haxorware Config File Comcast Complaint
myko hein, 19, uncapped his cable modem last month because the service was too slow for his liking (he was trading software in chat rooms over the 'net). it took at&t broadband only 6 hours to discover his hack and disconnect him from the service for life. the company considered his act “theft of service.”
hein's message to other users: don't do it, ever. hein's father is even restricted from using the service, and is not able to telecommute any longer. idsl, the other high-speed alternative, is too costly for them at over $100 a month.
Unlimited recording storage space. Live TV from 60+ channels. No cable box required. Cancel anytime. Comcast XFINITY. With a Motorola shelled diagnostic firmware with no settings changed. If I were him, I'd have my lawyer file with the court to get this tossed. The NJ court made a mistake as the complaint was supposed to be. If you look at the Modem firmware 'Haxorware' you will see on one of it's. Detect ldram 9fc00000 (A File Open dialog will appear, find your 2MB backup file and click open) program 9fc00 It is recommended you make a backup before flashing haxorware (or any other hacked firmware) onto your modem. To create a 2MB backup with JtagUtility, enter the following commands.
the process of uncapping a cable modem is typically technically involved, requiring the programming of a docsis configuration file with a special editor, putting up a tftp server, changing an ip address, and running a dhcp server to trick the cable modem into pulling the config file from a local host. although some parts of the process have been automated, there are still many hitches … but that's about to change.
onestep is described as a 30 megabyte monster of a program that rolls up all of the tools needed to perform a cable modem hack into one utility and hides them behind a point-and-click user interface that allows the user to select his/her cable modem make and model, service provider, and new speed (up to 10 mbps). onestep is headed up by a well-known member of the underground superbroadband world, an unemployed american programmer who heads a how-to chat site and has headed up several publicly released automated uncapping tools. this programmer, who goes by the handle “derengel,” states that smart uncappers know how to avoid detection.
at&t broadband spokeswoman sarah eder stated that the company would not have terminated hein without warning unless there were aggravating factors, but one of the consequences of uncapping is service termination. another factor to consider is the anti-social aspect of uncapping, meaning that one person using too much of the bandwidth during peak hours could cause bottlenecks for the rest of the users on that node.
check out security focus online and our previous news item for more details.
ron's opinion
there's just never enough speed in this world. when 56 kbps dial-up access was the only internet, users used to get disconnected by their isp because they were leaving their computers connected 24/7, not giving other users the ability to connect at all. now that we have cable modems, which is a relatively cheap method of connecting to the internet at high speeds, people want 10 mbps instead of the 384 kbps that is common with cable modem access. i just recently got a cable modem and i am perfectly happy with the speeds i am getting; but then i don't trade movies and software over the 'net, which is what most people use the uncapped cable modems for anyway.
the bottom line is if everyone decides to uncap their modems, no one will get any amount of bandwidth and we will all suffer. my final words for today: be a good neighbor and don't uncap your cable modem.
user comments 158 comment(s)
| what about dsl?(9:06am est mon may 13 2002) i'm only getting 1.5 mbps out of my dsl [not that i'm expecting a lot of you to weep for me…] and i'm wondering whether there's anything like that for dsl. – by deafdude |
| reeeeeaalllly…(9:08am est mon may 13 2002) where would one 'aquire' said hacking tool, hmmm ? purely for research purposes, of course ) – by eyad |
| theft of service?(9:18am est mon may 13 2002) i would love to see the clause in his contract with his isp that enables them to claim that he 'stole'. restricting his father as well? have they give a reason for that? this would appear to be a legal grey area which, as everyone knows, legal grey area = lots of money for lawyers. – by english guy |
| ron(9:21am est mon may 13 2002) “if everyone decides to uncap their modems, no one will get any amount of bandwidth and we will all suffer” i can't agree. industry should provide what the customer wants. if he can't provide bandwidth, he should upgrade his infrastructure. of course, if you are getting twice the speed you should expect to pay twice the price. agreed that you shouldn't hack your provider. – by /sm |
| theft of service is right!(9:23am est mon may 13 2002) at&t is stealing the service from us. promising one thing and delivering on another. the modem has the ability to go faster. but we never go at that speed. my old highest download at 500kpersec. that was when it first came out. then it went to 300 then to 100, this is a fast service. please. – by the one |
| theft of service is right!(9:23am est mon may 13 2002) at&t is stealing the service from us. promising one thing and delivering on another. the modem has the ability to go faster. but we never go at that speed. my old highest download at 500kpersec. that was when it first came out. then it went to 300 then to 100, this is a fast service. please. – by the one |
| english guy(9:24am est mon may 13 2002) if the service is in daddy's name, then daddy is screwed. he should have raised his son to either be a better person or a better hacker. you should feel sorrier for someone whose computers are conficated at gunpoint because his kid was cracking. similar crime, worse punishment. – by /sm |
| re: /sm(9:33am est mon may 13 2002) i disagree steve. you can play the old “blame the parents for everything their kids do” game all you want, but this “kid” is an adult (he's 19), and must take responsibility for his actions. if he uncapped the modem, then the company has every right to ban him for life if that's how they want to respond to that sort of thing. but why should his father pay for this? sure, the service may have been in the father's name, but if they've determined who actually did it (ie. the kid), then there's no reason to punish the father. admitedly, it would be hard to prevent the kid from using the service, yet allow the father to use it, if they're living in the same house. if i was the father, i'd tell the kid it's time to move out so i could keep my broadband connection. and i would expect that the isp would allow me to keep the connection based on the fact that the kid has moved out and will not be using the service. |
| that is one gifted kid.(9:35am est mon may 13 2002) how long would it have taken you to figure that out? i am not sure i would have even known where to start. he must have had absolutley no life at all, except playing with that damn thing all day. – by impressed. |
| from the security focus article…(9:37am est mon may 13 2002) “hein insists he didn't even know he was violating his service agreement, and claims the uncapping was done by an automated script passed to him by a friend on irc — a kind of onestep lite, written specifically for his service provider, modem and operating system, which he mistook for a perfectly normal connection optimizing tool.” he could just be covering his ass here, but if he's telling the truth, i would think the isp could give him a second chance. he's clearly learned his lesson, and, again, i don't think his dad should suffer for what he did. |
| you don't get what you pay for anyway(9:38am est mon may 13 2002) when charter took over for @home they promised the same great service for the same price. i'm supposed to be getting 1.5mbps, but it's only 800 kbps – and they just informed me the price will double at the end of the month. unfortunately it seems i'm just outside the dsl area. :( – by robguy |
| at&t just sucks(10:09am est mon may 13 2002) maybe, just maybe at&t sucks! ever think of that? it's broadband. if they set their speed cap so low that people notice… then at&t is to blame. broadband should be noticeably faster than 56k dialup. when i connect (and i'm on cable) to a friend (who has at&t cable) and a file transfer crawls along… someone (at&t) is screwed up ! – by customercare?ha |
| cable speeds need a boost.(10:20am est mon may 13 2002) when the cable service round here (time warner) first arrvied, they claimed “speeds up to 1.5mbps!” of course i never saw anything close to that, but i wasn't suprised and would have been happy to see a more resonable 800k or so. now, when i visit the road runner website, there is not a single mention of any speed i could fine. other that somthing like “many times faster tha dial-up!”. so i was curious. now, just a couple weeks ago, i talked with a time warne rep. about “buisness class” cable access and she informed me that the current residential class cable access is 384k/down and 192k/up. ugh. if i wanted anything closer to the 1.5/down they originally claimed, i'd have to spend over $150 a month, perhaps much more if i also wanted greater up speed too. anyhow.i guess this is what happens when you have a monopoly on things.around here, there is no alternate calbe service, and the dsl coverage is still spotty. – by digismack |
| att sucks ass(10:26am est mon may 13 2002) my friends with att cable are all up in arms over the slow-as-56k-speeds they get while surfing simple pages. -artist formerly known as steve/sm – by ha |
| speaking of un-capping(10:29am est mon may 13 2002) when is the nfl gonna remove this sill salary cap??? let the good teams spend cash on real talent, not this lame cut everyone, restructure, and hope they come back for minimum wage. it's a debacle, that's what it is! – by paul tagliabeau |
| old news(11:37am est mon may 13 2002) this news is like well over 6 months old. next – by old news |
| well(12:19pm est mon may 13 2002) i do not blame the kid. these big companies are ripping people off, for the amount of bandwidth they assign to them. they have enough bandwidth, it's just that we don't get sh*t. f****ng pricks. – by -dim- |
| i say…(1:00pm est mon may 13 2002) users should demand full disclosure from the cable company about their capping policies and demand to be given specific speeds to which they can reference. i just checked the broadband availability with time warner cable of ny (offering your choice of 4 isps), and the best i could get is “offering speeds up to 2.0mbps”. that's all well and good, but we all know they'll cap it under that. and, this was mentioned before. for the customers who are happy with the capped speeds, why not make a division called “cable lite” or something like that, that costs half as much? it might even open up their business to people who want more speed, but don't want to pay the fees for some broadband access. – by bleh. |
| when i originally signed up(1:02pm est mon may 13 2002) they claimed speeds up to 10mbps here on time warner. this was in all of their advertising, if their limiting me to 384/k down and 192/k up then they were false advertising anyways. if they advertised the same way then it is not theft of services. – by war |
| 1.5 megabits for dsl(1:03pm est mon may 13 2002) is about the maximum for residential lines. any faster dsl lines are for business and not cost effective. besides, you have to sit on the dslam in order to get faster speeds. dsl limits are limited physically. 1.5 megabits is already in the second highest speed group. the first highest is in the 2-4 megabit range (i think) and you need to sit within 1000 feet or so of the dslam. cable is just a network with bandwidth management capabilities. – by true logic |
| and…(1:06pm est mon may 13 2002) to get dsl, you have to be within a decent range of the nearest dslam. if you don't have a dslam in the area, you don't get dsl. note: (vdsl?) has about the shortest range i have ever seen (3000 ft), but it is theoretically capable of 52 megabits down and 16 megabits up. – by true logic |
| b/w cap = capital $$$(2:01pm est mon may 13 2002) (cable) isps only have so much bandwidth to their providers. so if they let everyone use 1mbps, they'd max out their connection. instead, they'd rather cap your access and sell more service (ex. if every modem only went 1/10 as fast, that's 10x more paying customers they can connect). from their point of view, it's easier/cheaper to do that than have to upgrade or pay more for their upstream connection. i say uncap and force them to upgrade. if they had it their way, our home access will progress like molasses. – by eyad |
| heh heh(2:04pm est mon may 13 2002) everyone should uncap their modems. what're they gonna do, ban all their customers? :) – by thatwouldbefun |
| need more speed?(2:08pm est mon may 13 2002) just ask your provider. they will bill you more money and provide more bandwidth. thats how it works. |
| does anyone(2:08pm est mon may 13 2002) have a link for me to test my bandwidth? i have cox communication cable modem, residential. just curious. – by curious jorge |
| the 1st day i got…(2:09pm est mon may 13 2002) my cable modem, i found the hacking tools to do this. i never used them. instead, i used the tools to configure my pc, & get 600-900k. it has nothing to do with capping as every att user is capped at 1.5m. if you have a lasercard attached to 10 nodes with 500 users per node then you are going to see slower speeds. who is going to pay for these upgrades since they are at the local cable cos level, not the isps? the fcc just ruled that the local cable cos can't charge the user. thats a loss of 10m/month to the cos you want to upgrade their network. if you want guaranteed 1.5 pay for work class or $650 for a t1 & go atm. the majority of upset users can't even renew an ip or delete their cache after weeks of surfing. – by tech |
| proud to be canadian …(2:32pm est mon may 13 2002) everytime i read a story like this it makes me glad i live up in canada. right now i get 3 mb/s down (i'm not sure what it is up) for $45/mo canadian (that's ~ $30 us). the bad news is that dsl just announced they're gonna break into a 3 tier system at $25, $45, and $70 (canadian) for 128 kb/s, 1 mb/s and 3mb/s respectively (dsl is currently 1.25 mb/s down). while that sounds pretty good to me they are putting transfer caps on … something like 1 gb per month on the low account and accordingly higher for the others. i can understand it but the way i see it at least the highest one should be uncapped. our cable companies are about to follow suit with a similar plan. However, this truth is hidden by their family from the people. Challenge 2 bangla boi. i'll be curious to see if they'll really be able to track it (if you go over they'll charge you $$/mb over the limit) and how the public will accept it. either way i'm a gamer so i care about speed and latency more than the max data cap. and as far as that's concerned i'm still happy. later … – by oz |
| pond scum(2:58pm est mon may 13 2002) if it was my kid you can be sure he'd be out of the house in a fraggin' week or less. how could the provider know who did the hack? he can't. all he can do is punish the customer, who was dad, not teenager. speaking of teenagers, i have 2 of 'em. i am legally and morally responsible for them as long as they live in my house. not taking responsibility is one of the worst things that has happened to this country in the last 20 years, but unfortunately it comes from the very top levels of society (ie, washington dc and hollywood). the buck stops here. – by /sm |
| ha(3:02pm est mon may 13 2002) so you saw “steves school of fine art?” imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. are you that german lady who keeps sending me love letters? get a life, son. meet some girls. procrea… um, never mind. – by /sm |
| eyad(3:05pm est mon may 13 2002) “i say uncap and force them to upgrade.” i say cancel your service, both modem and tv, and let them know in writing and in no ucertain terms why you are cancelling service. if enough people did this, the caps would go away. but hacking them won't do anything but piss them off. – by /sm |
| canadian speeds…(3:16pm est mon may 13 2002) gotta convert 'em like the $ 1mb/s can = 600 kb/s us luv duh metric system… – by flame magnit |
| deafdude.(3:38pm est mon may 13 2002) who are ya? i'm dj–i'd assume that you're james. i also have dsl and i'm more than happy with it after having to put up with roadrunner cable during the peak hours for the last 2 years. does uncapping cable modems also enable faster upload speeds? imho, dsl would still be best for trading large files, as the upload speed greatly exceeds that of cable. – by dj |
| d/u speed change(3:53pm est mon may 13 2002) is there a clause in the contract that claims cable companies have the right to change their download/upload speeds without notice? i'm willing to bet they put one in somewhere. it may be a sneaky cop-out on their behalf, but with no alternatives for many people we either accept trade federation control or go without. – by laserman |
| i aint complaining(4:21pm est mon may 13 2002) i have cabelvision's optimum online and i would just like to say that my speeds are always fast, never bog down during peak hours, and is only $35 a month. i get consistent 3.7-4.1 mb/sec from pcpitstop.com's bandwidth tester. when i download off of microsoft's windows update i get a constant 600-700kilobytes a second. that is what, around 5.5mb/sec? not only that, my upload is about 120k a sec, or about a full 1mb/sec. overall, my service seems to be really good compared to all the rest of the cable companies. guess that is what i get for having cablevision's crappy tv signals. – by satisfied |
| hrmmm(4:27pm est mon may 13 2002) where can i get a copy of onestep i just wanna take a look at it (nuttin wrong with bein curious) – by webby |
| measuring line speed(4:31pm est mon may 13 2002) go to “speed tests” under “dslr tools” at – by eric |
| bandwidth test(4:36pm est mon may 13 2002) try that one. – by |
| want faster speeds?(5:02pm est mon may 13 2002) just scream bloody murder about once a week. ask for a credit everytime you call. they will up your cap to shut you up. took me about 3 months but it's been running at about 6mbps for the last 2 years. – by not tellin |
| an overview please(5:24pm est mon may 13 2002) its all fine and well. but no one has stated the actaul comparisons for the provider speeds and connection method. eg i have dsl from t-online (germany) in the grand sceme of bandwidth available to the public where do i stand. (i think towards the top) |
| ool by cablevision(6:45pm est mon may 13 2002) i love mt optimum online by cablevision. uncapped downloads, but only 1.5mbit uploads. that's ok, i usually don't need to upload really fast, it just gets annoying when i add files to my server. – by breffasst |
| ……….(8:12pm est mon may 13 2002) theres no reason to complain about your connection unless you download at 2kbps like me – by an angry person |
| excite had no cap!!(12:26am est tue may 14 2002) when we first subscribed to @home in the seattle area, we regularly saw 3-8 mbits/sec. down depending on time of day. thought it was fantastic. $35/month, no down cap. then at&t crapped on excite and capped everyone at 1.5. same price, about 1/3 the service !!! how can you preemptively reduce someone's service by 2/3, keep the price the same and not expect complaints?? excite knew how to run a fast, switch-based network over the cable with connections to very robust gateways. at&t can't run a network out of a paper bag!!! can't wait for satellite to finally be available at higher bandwidths and lower cost!!! i'd love to fire at&t once and for all. anyone feel the same? – by old man micro |
| its really a matter of better charters …(5:58am est tue may 14 2002) the mistake, as i see it, is that we grant charters for exclusivity to companies to install cable services, without getting enough control in return. it happened with tv cable and we've repeated it with “high-speed” internet. where's the incentive for them to do anything other than sit on their fat a$$ and run up the prices and run down the service. what you need to do is have your local governments put the following conditions in the charters they grant. the company fronts the money to install the equipment & service, but the equipment & service is owned by the government. that way, when at&t or whomever renegs on their promises, you just put up the whole thing out for bid. that's the way capitalism works for you — open market with no barriers to entry. since no one is insisting on this for cable contracts, you are only getting the service that you deserve. – by yetanothergeekguy |
| omg(9:12am est tue may 14 2002) but we all know that the government is evil and they must stay out of business otherwise anarchy ensues and what are you some kind of communist so stfu and go back to china where you belong you pinko bastard – by typicalgeekposter |
| comcast cable is pretty decent(3:01pm est tue may 14 2002) i'm getting about 1200/128. i dont mind the slow upload speed since i don't file share. it sometimes makes my vpn connection to work drag, but that could very well be more to do with my encryption. i also live in the city with roughly 2.5 million people. i'm also in an apartment complex. all these factors do not take away from my over all speed. i'd love a higher upload cap, but the download is nearly as good as our t1 at work. – by speedy |
| think twice(3:52pm est tue may 14 2002) read this article here about a guy uncapping his cable. – by the dude |
| justed tested my cable(8:25pm est tue may 14 2002) i have at&t and just speedtested it at 2mbps downstream. i switched over from dsl because the provider (qwest) was a freakin' nightmare, and they were going to migrate me to msn (not!). i was really worried about switching to cable and sharing bandwidth, but i have been pleasantly surprised. i download lots of music, and have never been disappointed with speed. of course, at&t still sucks, but that's just a general principle with large blood-sucking corporations. – by perkypete |
| bullshit(5:14pm est wed may 15 2002) ok i could care less about the kid/father shit i would just like to say that im uncapped and loving it been uncapped for 2 years now on charter pipeline. is it wrong? do i care? no, charter has got to be the worst company i've ever delt with no tech support email servers always down just plain bullshit. i wish everyone would uncap their modem and force the companies to raise thei r caps in my opinion if the companies offered reasonable rates then alot of ppl wouldnt uncap but come on 512/128 wtf is the deal with that? anyways anyone who wants to uncap will tell u step by step on how to do it. also if you do get disconnected its easy to turn it back on yourself . when they catch you they send you a new config file to your modem usually blocked.cfg but in my case its networkaccessdenied.cm anyways all you have to do is grab your orignal config file and rename it to blocked.cfg upload that to the modem and bam! your back online amazing huh? not really alot of ppl know about this. oh yeah alot of isps use md5. md5 is sorta like a password thats encrypted in the config file so you cant just make any config files and put it on your modem. as of now you cant get around it unless u have alot of proccessing power and a good brute force hfc/mac cracker. although what you can do is look for router/business class config its easy to do just scan your hfc ip range and you will see the cisco icons pop up. anyways have fun and uncap!!! – by quadforce |
| dsl speeds(12:11am est thu may 16 2002) i just got dsl(not sure what type), and it only does 150kbps if i'm lucky. it loads sites fast but seems to be limited in upload/download speed. for instance on winmx i am only getting 70kbps out of a t1. i know people lie and shit but that's the highest i've gotten so far. when i download straight from sies i get an average of 98-100kbps. i think the guy told us we were pretty close to the dslam. can anyone help me make my dsl faster? – by sm00th as m1lk |
| uncap your modems…(2:45pm est thu may 16 2002) so i can cancel you service, or cancel you slow service on your own, that way i don't have to tell you to restart you pc when you can't get online. – by tech |
| i sound like…(2:47pm est thu may 16 2002) tarzan. i meant “your”. – by tech |
| just fyi(11:13pm est sat may 18 2002) just wanted to say that i agree with alot of your comments and ideas…i too felt victimized by @home going under and at&t taking over…the service drastically plummeted while the price remained the same….you call customer support to find out why you have packet loss or a spiking ping of 205 to your default gateway (first node) and you get the “i see no problems in your area” bs…you inquire about tiered service “i'm sorry sir – we have no information about that”.you ask to speak to someone above tier2.someone with answers.”i'm sorry sir – we have no numbers or contacts”…this my friends is what happens when we allow a monopoly to take course…they can do what they want with our service and connections as the contracts are very vague and make no promises…what ever happened to ethics and professionalism is my question?? they provided high quality – great service for two years (for me) – and then just pull it with a cap?? well – in addition – i just wanted to note that the article regarding the 'onestep' type programming to uncap your modems is written by a 'online security' type group. so of course they are trying to scare you. yes it is robbing peter to pay paul.but – i know of several people who have unlocked their modems several weeks ago – and have been happy ever since…want more info you say? this is america – here it is.make your own choices: – by /s/bseal |
| att sux(9:12am est sun may 19 2002) when i had @home i had dl speeds over 3mps down and 128k up now with att i get 256 down and 128 up what kinda f^king serveice is that???? now i just found out that bresnan communications bought att in my area and from what ive heard they are the worst yet………anyone got any good info on bresnan? – by att hater |
| at&t(3:43am est mon may 20 2002) reading all the post about at&t/previous excite users. i remember excite saying that you had upto 10m down and 128k up. i was pulling around 5m – 8m down. as a gamer that was great. since at&t took over i'm lucky at times to pull 100k. i should just put my modem back in and save the money. at&t sucks ass. if excite could give us the excellent service why can't at&t do the same. money hungry assholes – by cyber thief |
| att does not own…(8:41am est mon may 20 2002) you local cable co. if you tv cable goes out do you call showtime? – by tech |
| coxhsi(1:32pm est mon may 20 2002) i just ordered my surfboard last week ups says be here today.ever since xmas of this past year (when they performed the upgrade)**laff** my head in changed from 2 miles down the road to atlanta ga from here (fredburg va) what do you think it done for my gaming….yep you guessed it went to hell last time the “techs” came the one dude informed me that his supervisor told him to tell me that if i dont like the service then turn in my cable modem….guess what…fffff)(*&(*&(*&kk uuuuuuuuuu i got something for their asses. think im bsing check out this for gaming… tracing route to cox.net [68.1.17.7] 1 246 ms 65 ms 214 ms ip68-98-128-1.nv.nv.cox.net [68.98.128.1] |
| isp's loosing(3:46pm est thu jun 27 2002) the fact of the matter is bandwidth is expensive! customers uncapping the cable modem is theft just like using movie filters or even hackiing into an atm machine. just to replay to the respose that the company should accomidate the customer i say that is rediculous. the customer agrees (normally by contract) to buy a service from a company that is advertising a service for sale. unless the company is advertising a “customer configurable service” then to alter with the service set by the provider is teft and outside the scope the service advertised. the more customers (in most cases, im sure not all) the provider will increase the quality of service at a fee or as the customer base increases. when several end users steal service either by hand or technology it hurts the service for those who are paying for their service. i completely agree with att shutting them off for life. it sends the message to others wanting to do the same thing. as i am stepping off this soap box let me say that most service companies are entitled to deny service in situation of teft as this one. there is no gray area. theft by technology is no different then theft by hand. – by isp |
| expensive? maybe for you…(11:40am est fri jun 28 2002) most larger companies (isps) pay a flat rate for big bandwidth like we discovered our did. this was after a bad nic racked up $6,000 in extra bandwidth charges for us in two months. they were kind enough to give us a 25% “discount” in the bill and then a tech later told me they pay a flat rate, so it was pure profit for them… and perhaps that is why they did not check with us when our bandwidth suddenly jumped about 10 times for that time period… sure, for some there is added expense, but not for all. cable providers should allow heavy users more bw, but scale back when demand is higher. of course, it's always hard to scale back once you've had a taste….! the worst punishment for the kid would have been to allow him to keep his service, but put a new cap in at 512k!! but that would have been cruel and inhumane…!!! – by christian nielsen |
| greed (6:33am est sun jun 30 2002) i have comcast service currently and my speeds reach about 1.8 megs down and (exactly)120kbps up . this is reasonable for what i pay. my problem is that others across the country are paying the same as me and getting far less!!!!!! at first my speeds sucked ass at only 600kps down and maybe 90kps up. i was furious, but what could i do about it —nothing. then one glorious day my local company switched from static ip's to dhcp ,and the result was great. i finally got my advertised speeds. but, my upload speed still sucks even hitting the cap, it holds back file sharing and it holds back gaming. the part that gets me is that the network can hold soooooo much more bandwidth and i know this for a fact(i have friends who work for my cisp). they do it simply out of greed. they want you to pay more money for more bandwidth , even though you were getting speeds equal to or greater than the pro service with @home for the same price you are paying now. if there are any isp reps or “tech” guys reading this then i have a question for you: if @home was able to deliver the bandwidth they did (at the rates they did) and after many local service owners have made supposed “upgrades” to the network then why cant you provide the same service as @home(that being the same speeds)on these “upgraded” networks????????? you cant say that the bandwidth isnt there because those who had @home had the bandwidth!!!!!!! why cant the cap get raised??? i would like a straight anwser please!!! no bullshit!!! – by knowledge is power |
| capped or uncapped(1:57pm est mon jul 01 2002) yeah i'd like to see isp prove that in a court of law. no gray area my ass, that's why we have sooo many hack in prison right now… stupid. – by anti-cmos |
| :((4:01pm est wed jul 03 2002) i would be happy if i was getting the speeds i was supposed to get. if it is possible to uncap dsl i would do it. i am supposed to be geting 1.5mb with my aol dsl, if im lucky i get .5mb – by anthony |
| not that bad…(8:08am est thu jul 04 2002) well, i see that most of you have not that bad of a service… here (austria) we're limited to 512k/s down 64k/s up… 2gb/month up+down. 30euros. and it's the best around!!! limit the poor little “uncapper” guy to 512k would be too cruel and inhumane… well, i think i must be in pain right now? right? – by an austrian |
| uhmm listen this then…(4:42am est wed jul 10 2002) i pay 35 euro/month and got 64kbit downstream and 16kbit upstream rate. government likes to play monopoly. and i like to get what i deserve. – by engin |
| it serves no purpose(11:00am est wed jul 10 2002) as i have observed over the years of online connections varying from 14.4kbs to today, i have noticed that no matter how fast we get people will not be satisfied. instead you will see that they want to push the limits and get more speed. therefore, there needs to be a “cap” on internet speeds regardless if you agree with me or not. face the fact that there will always be speed junkies on the web that are constantly trying to achieve higher connection rates. now from and isp's standpoint if a number of my customers had uncapped their modems (with onestep coming this will be a factor to consider) the isp is going to have a dilemna on their hands because they have a certain amount of bandwidth that they pay for to service their customers. and because people will be stealing bandwidth the isp will become unstable because of the uncompensated for use of bandwidth. therefore the isp's will have to either program software to not accept incoming config files from modems with an altered speed rate permanately stopping the uncapping of all cable modems, or they will have to jack up prices for cable modems because people are taking more bandwidth than they have paid for. remember isp's are limited for speed by the technology we have avaiable. eventually we will end up maxing out the isp and the technology and it will bog down all the internet connections because our isp's cant handle the bandwidth demand. if you consider yourself a hacker of any type than you will obviously understand the basis of my arguement against uncapping. remember technology can be outused, so why make things worse for ourselves by taking that technology and using it selfishly which overall will cause more problems for yourself and other online users. – by anonymous |
| re: it serves no purpose(9:58pm est wed jul 17 2002) i agree with you completly. however you mentioned “speed junkies”, i my self am a speed junky but most speed junkies would be more than willing to buy a upgraded service. one concept would be basic, buy an bandwidth upgrade. simple. another would be to buy extra bandwidth on off peak hours. i do most of my surfing in the evening and in the middle of the night. cisp's(cable isp's) could profit alot on a service like that. capped on peak hours and uncapped on off peak hours. i would buy it wouldn't you???? – by jay |
| wtf(10:30pm est mon jul 22 2002) uncap your modem like lame people need to check there email @ faster speeds – by webdawg |
| ohh yah(10:31pm est mon jul 22 2002) for the people who think were not satisfied, if i had a 10mbit connect i would not care… – by webdawg |
| cable modem(8:18pm est sun aug 04 2002) you cable modeme service provider provides you with a service that can reach say 512 kilo bits per second and most of them have a bandwidth ration lets say 10:1 which then means that there is a limited amount of bandwidth to ten people so they are giving you want you pay for so fuck up and dont give any more grief – by u will die soon |
| uncapping(8:56am est sun aug 25 2002) the guy up above is full of shit when he says hes uncapped for 2 years. and that a config file of no access is sent to hes modem. dumbfuck all cable providers grant service to the mac address of your cable modem. when they terminate your service they remove your mac address thus you never come back fucking liar. and now i say this if u want to safely uncap block snmp in your config file snmp is how the isp checks your current config file. – by happyuncapper |
| do it uncap your modem!(5:12am est mon aug 26 2002) i have a little tale of my own, (damn fucking coorprates) them dam mofo's charged me for 1 year of cox@work for port scanning! sheesh* its not even illegal, i didnt receve a warning one day they just shut me off. i called back all mad and shit they said some dudes firewall picked it up, and reported me they got the report and shut me off. so i hulkedup(hulkster style) and told them that port scanning wasnt illegal, we argued that point for 30 minutes. then they fucked up! they told me that i had been “running a server” then i hulked up even more and slaped the, “internet privacy act” in their face and told them that they were invadeing my home, “they had to get passed my firewall to find out if i had a server running”…… i won the arguement but! they still refused 2 turn my service back on, they said that i had to pay for cox@work 70$ fucking bucks! “meaning i could run the server” i did that shit for a hole year even though i was 100%(innocent… well lets just say unproveable guilt so we all are suposedly assumed innocent. but fact is they invaded my home and shut my service off for a legal act!) the year has passed, i should have taken them to court, but i had them switch me back to cox@home and now im paying normal price…dammit now i wana uncap this shitty ass upload how can a guy trade anything, nowadays i say everyone 1mb/s let the coorprates spend some loot so us coustmers can have some freedom! so uncap uncap uncap uncap uncap uncap!!! ucnap again and then uncap again!!! who cares if they shut you off this is a trend! everyone start it now!!! ill say it again everyone start it now!, get the onestep like a classic cracker. i give madd props to derengel for that prog, who would have thought useing localhost as your dhcp server!! genius 127.0.0.1 ha! great idea!!! dont worry uncappings no more immoral than downloading mp3's as allways – dahan!¥ – by daniel newman —– |
| think caps are the only problem?(12:21pm est sat sep 21 2002) a cap is nothing more than a limit. i would venture most of you don't even hit that cap. if your suspose to be getting 1.5mb/s but you only get 800kb/s then your cap is not your issue. your issue is probally an overloaded node and your sharing with too many people. take for example myself, i am connected with attbi cable since @home fell. i am on a node serving an apt complex prewired and advertised for verizon dsl so the is almost no one on this node cause they don't realise there is cable access here. now with @home i had ungodly speeds in the range of 3-4 mb/s once attbi took over they capped me at 1.5mb/s. now i get consistant 1.5mb/s all the time due to it could do so much more but it's hitting that barrier (cap). now after what i was use to this seems like dial-up to me but what am i to do about it? switch to dsl? with them i may not even see the advertised speed of 1.5mb/s and even if i do i'm still getting the same speed at the same to higher price. now in my case i have a surfboard 4100 modem that could be hacked to read a config file from my computer instead for the correct server and change my cap back to the speed i once had. i have done this once to see if it works and yes it does. i was back at my old @home speeds. i however shut off the server and cycled the modem to let it get the proper file again rather than risk being caught and banned as the guy in this story did. point of all of this is though removing a barrier does no good if you never reached the barrier anyways. as for my experences with this stuff, i was teir 2 tech support for roadrunner and for @home in their dallas office and after @home fell i now do support for verizon dsl east. all in all your speed will depend on the area your in. cables good in some and dsl in others. go with what is best for you. as for those of you curious about the surfboard hack you can find it at keep in mind what i said and use your best judgement as to if it's worth the risk. – by tim mckenzie |
| cable modem uncapping(10:32am est sat oct 12 2002) its funny, my and my friends cable service provider (no names mentioned) can tell you how to uncap your modem if you call them up and tell them that your speed is too low, i have dedicated cable and on windows xp(uncapped) i get 10.9 megabits/sec, on windows me(capped) i get 2 megabits/sec, both same pc(dual boot). i personally use me right now because the service provider is going through a bad situation, and i do not want to be punished for “theft” -just my opinions aim handle: aim adm1n flames – by flames |
| one more thing(10:37am est sat oct 12 2002) i cannot risk my cable getting shut off like some of you, i live in the middle of nowhere, it took 2 months for my service provider to set up my dedicated line(im the only one who requested it here), i dont want satelite due to the price, i cant get dsl or wireless. so if ur in a situation like me, dont get caught or then dont do it, when i uncapped i didnt host a server, all i do it for is downloading files and uploading to my server, nothing really illegal, but i do agree with daniel newman about what he said – by flames |
| fuck you(6:56pm est tue oct 29 2002) you're all faggots – by fuckface |
| are you kidding me??(1:08am est sun dec 22 2002) i cannot believe i am reading this. most of you are bitching about your capped speeds. if you want guaranteed t1 speed, go buy a t1. it is only around a grand a month minus install which is another grand or more. do you think your isp gets it's banwidth for free? – by ex sysadmin |
| cable connection(9:32pm est fri dec 27 2002) can i have 2 cable modem connection? i just have the cable wire connect to modem 1 and a split hook to modem 2, and each of them will have 2 different ip, but will the speed of the connection be faster? or it will be the same? – by mike fan |
| where do i get the program??(9:21am est fri jan 10 2003) where do i get the uncapping program because i am lazy and do not like to think? – by ^_^ |
| at&t can suck my balls…(6:16pm est wed jan 15 2003) at&t has been screwing people for years, not to say other corporations aren't, but this thread is about at&t. not only with their internet service, but the their phone and wireless services as well. customer care is the worst i have ever experienced (not to mention the techs are freakin' idiots), which is only a minor problem in comparison with their actual product service. at&t, despite the crappy up/down caps, which are much lower than cox (just as an example) and more expensive, have the ability to at least clean up or replace their shotty ass pipes so people can actually experience the 1.5/256 rates. however this is not the case… at&t refuses to upgrade, thus leaving thousands of users with their thumbs up their asses out of luck. pings to your gateway shouldn't be high… however us at&t users often find pings averaging over 100, 500, and 1000. seems to me that at&t is simply a cheap, low-quality corporation that doesn't give a shit about customers and their concerns. i have no problem uncapping their service… if they don't feel guilty about screwing consumers, then i refuse to feel guilty about uncapping and over-priced, second-rate, greedy ass company. – by åÿř £Ş |
| no life for uncapping a modem?(5:45pm est tue jan 21 2003) well, for all the people that think this guy doesn't have a life, for uncapping his cablemodem, sorry, but i think ur wrong. i did the same thing when i was 15, lol. and i certainly do have apart from the internet! – by tommy |
| to those who say get a t-1(5:01pm est wed feb 19 2003) a t-3 is about $2000 per month a t-1 is about $500 per month a t-3 is about 29 times faster than a t-1 based on a t-3 a t-1 should cost 1/29th of $2000= $69.03 cable companies offering broadband are not on a t-3 but on an oc-xx and are getting an even better bulk rate discount – by busta uncap |
| how to uncap!!!(6:42pm est fri feb 28 2003) just download my software, its easy… – by derengel |
| slower speeds(9:19pm est fri feb 28 2003) i thought internet connections were supposed to be progressing and getting faster, but it's the opposite. my first cable modem was a lancity and i got between 350-400 kb/s (bout 3 mbits) all the time, then it died and replaced it with a terayon which did hit speeds of 200-250 kb/s at first but crawled to 30-50 kb/s most of the time, got it replaced, now they gave me a toshiba which does 180kb/s max(1.3-1.4 megabits/s). this is still decent speed and i don't mind at all as long as they don't cap my monthly download amount. – by anonymous |
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| no basis(8:28pm est thu mar 27 2003) there's no reason why an isp could ban you from the service for allowing a modem to do what it was intended to do. first off you're paying to rent the piece of hardware so if it was deemed a banable offence, you shouldn't have the charge of renting a modem tacked on. you could even take it to the next level and purchase your own cable modem with a modified configuration file and get the service. their basis, altho viable, is moot. – by pl |
| ……(7:29pm est sat mar 29 2003) wow. the whole subject is very interesting. in the same way though, it would be quite a risk to uncap your modem. i mean, arent the isp going to notice when one of its users stops responding to its configs? or when one user is using 10x his allowed bandwidth? i dont think you'd get away with it, somehow. – by matt andrews |
| onestep?(10:43pm est sun apr 06 2003) where do you get this so called gui uncappiung program? – by overclokd |
| theft?(1:18pm est wed apr 23 2003) calling it theft of service is crazy, it's not like they're short on bandwidth, more likely they have cheap servers and never want to upgrade. the upload thing is just a ploy to stop p2p when you get right down to it. – by thunder3 |
| cable modems(3:54pm est fri apr 25 2003) bahahahahaha you all suck the cock you fuckers … you can to uncap your cable modem you stupid little fuckers. i know this for a fact … so go fuck yourselves … then after you have uncapped your cable modem you can download at an ungodly speed you stupid little bastards i hope you all eat shit and die … bahahahahahahahaha you fools!!! – by youallsuckthecock |
| my penis is … well that doesn't matter cause jaceks is well you cant(3:59pm est fri apr 25 2003) my penis is … well that doesn't matter cause jaceks is well you cant even see it, so says his mom after he got busted jacking off by his mom in his room and then asked her to finish him off. he was like i just started can you come back in about 10 secs. – by ffff |
| hacking (1:29pm est sun apr 27 2003) i am pissed i just wanna hack i am so sick of giving funds to these monopolized icons of today its time we start a revolution from the bottom and shut down these fat biggots who have seemingly taken over every part of this so called everyday life – by you know my name |
| hacking(1:41pm est sun apr 27 2003) i m goona raise the roof uf this caping business ill find a way so all you pc freaks like me can be in peace fuck this money hungry system now days the way its used it should be free and our tax dollars should be covering it but no our hard earned dollars are sent over seas to restore shit thats got nothing to do with us and were told to work more make more give them more to get the necesities well i say fuck it and im starting a revolution !!!! my emale is doms772002@yahoo.com any one that feels the same join me emale me title hacking peace and to u money hungery fuckers im gonna shuve ur cap down ur throat i still use dial up cause my hackin skills are just startin so in tyme ull see me again given away those secrets u like to hide from us public people – by you know my name |
| wow(2:26am est mon may 26 2003) “i m goona raise the roof uf this caping business ill find a way so all you pc freaks like me can be in peace fuck this money hungry system now days the way its used it should be free and our tax dollars should be covering it…” sounds nice dude, but maybee you should learn how to spell first before you whip out your mad hacking skills. on second thought, you're just a fucking idiot and there's no hope for you. oh, and good luck with that revolution. anyway, i say as long as uncapping isn't mainstream and made excessively easy, leave it the hell alone. see, those of us who actually know what we're doing and succeed in uncapping a cable modem are the ones who obviously take advantage of the bandwidth. that's not to say we're eating all 10mbps 24/7, but lets just say your bandwidth should be relative to your skills i.e. some people earn their bandwidth while many who are crying about uncapping being unfare barely use their account to check their e-mail. i don't give a shit if you think you pay too mutch for others to use you're bandwidth. if you want dedicated, get dsl and quit your bitchin. |
| how to get it (8:28pm est thu may 29 2003) – by hctim |
| sex(10:45am est fri aug 15 2003) sex – by sexy |
| failure(11:04pm est wed aug 27 2003) i tried all the links given above and none of them worked with my sb4200 – by lost |
| firmware(11:05pm est wed aug 27 2003) anyone know how to downgrade the firmware of your modem? – by lost |
| hahah(3:03pm est sun sep 21 2003) i agrre with them i would want to accuire such a tool fuck who ever doesnt agrre they ripp us of sometimes so fuck them they all deserve to be hacked – by ////////// |
| link to uncapping your surfboard sb4100 modem(12:57am est fri oct 24 2003) if this helped you e-mail me at tom@xcc.us – by tsh |
| t-1 vs. t-3(3:37am est wed oct 29 2003) in response to the above posing about t-1 and t-3 prices. my company, birch telecom), provides t-1 internet services at $399 per month with the t-1 router provided and free setup. and…a t-3 is 28 t-1's not 29. you will never see odd numbers when talking communications… 4 t-1's in a t-2 4×7 is 28 – as per m23 multiplexing basics… – by bulldog |
| ¼áíâò¡à¢òä»à«çµ dslam ·óíâèò§äã(10:03am est tue nov 04 2003) ¼áíâò¡à«çµ dslam ·óíâèò§äã¤ãñºàº×èí isp áò¡àåâ – by yutthana |
| good site tom@xcc.us !!(1:19am est tue nov 18 2003) is a total winner. now to lurk and learn! |
| upload?(5:51am est thu nov 20 2003) so if you uncapping your modem allows you to download at an incredible rate, therefore taking up bandwidth and getting the isp to cut your service…is there any way to only uncapp your upload speed?…i mean right now my modem is capped at 256000 bps so i can only upload at about 32 kbps….if i capped that to something just a little higher, or if i could….do you think that the isp would notice it as much?…just a thought… – by redpostdf |
| uncapping is a federal offense within fcc regulations.(9:00pm est wed dec 24 2003) anyway, i say as long as uncapping isn't mainstream and made excessively easy, leave it the hell alone. see, those of us who actually know what we're doing and succeed in uncapping a cable modem are the ones who obviously take advantage of the bandwidth. that's not to say we're eating all 10mbps 24/7, but lets just say your bandwidth should be relative to your skills i.e. some people earn their bandwidth while many who are crying about uncapping being unfare barely use their account to check their e-mail. i don't give a shit if you think you pay too mutch for others to use you're bandwidth. if you want dedicated, get dsl and quit your bitchin. – by reality check first of all, your spelling and grammer aren't much better. second of all, i don't think that i should be paying for your excessive bandwidth. third of all, the caps really are there for a purpose. (im network admin.) the purpose of capping is so that all users assigned to that node aren't overpowering the system and causing it to crash. it's costing companies literally millions of dollars every year to expand existing services to new clients. if you think about it, the cable companies do offer you faster throughput at a fairly reasonable price, (roughly $44 for 1.5mbps and 2.5mbps@59.00, 4.0mbps@99.00 a month.) these prices are average and are to pay for advancement in the systems, (ie, new routers, switches, etc.) – by network admins |
| rds(5:39pm est wed feb 04 2004) im' on rdslink over here in romania. the service i use is capped at something like 128kbit up/down. they even use lame a$$ lancity modems (they lose the damn connection way too often. i also had a zyxel series 900 modem which was simply amazing, so it's not a problem of signal quality). even more, the whole network just keeps breaking down (and it's been installed about 4 months ago). now, with this service, it seems that i've caught the last train to decency, i.e. i have no transfer limit. a couple of weeks after i signed the [damn] contract they changed this and put a 10gb/month limit, with a 10cent/mb fee for anything exceeding the limit. so, for every other 10gb/month you pay an extra $100. the whole thing is $39 and after the vat it's up to $46 which i belive it's highway robbery. the biggest problem is that the minimum wager around here is around $80/month. imagine that. i have considered dsl. actually, you can only get adsl (8mbit down/1mbit up) for as little as $400… so, in these conditions, shouldn't i uncap the damn thing and put something like 512kbit? it seems pretty reasonable to me. tell me what you think about the prices/services around here. – by furious rdslink user |
| comcast?(3:34am est thu feb 19 2004) damn that was long. i just finished reading the whole thing. so does everybody have comcast now? how is it compared to at&t? i mean is there a reason to uncap with comcast? has anybody heard about getting free service by changing the mac address with somebody in your area? – by razor16 |
| nice rds(11:59pm est mon mar 08 2004) but of course we need to do something about it :). the prices here are waaaay to high for what the isps are offering… so, just do the job! – by ancient |
| my isp sucks!(2:59am est wed mar 31 2004) ok, check this out. my isp is charter communications. i'm paying $100 a month for 128k u/l and 2mb d/l. the d/l isn't so bad when i'm actually gettin more than 1mb. but 128k u/l wtf is that?!?! i just don't feel i'm getting what i'm paying for. i live in a small ass town in michigan and charter is the only high speed internet around(imagine that). no dsl, no comcast. it's charter's bullshit or 56k dial. :( charter's tech support sucks and their prices are expensive. i'm hearing all this talk about onestep. where can i get it?!?! i've searched irc, ftp, www, winmx. if it's such a great proggie why can't i find it? help me out, please! any hints/tips are greatly appreciate. if it makes a difference, i got my own cable modem, sb4100, bought it off ebay cheap as hell. ) thanks for your time, wishkah – by wishkah |
| why hiding the software(2:06pm est sat apr 03 2004) need to get the docsys hacking software to change the cfg file mail me link at msrr@worldcall.net.pk – by cg |
| changing mac address.(2:38pm est mon apr 26 2004) is there actually away to change the mac address with software? or do you have to have some sort of eeprom programer? jmalone911@yahoo.com – by jd |
| my scrotum.(2:14am est thu apr 29 2004) it itches. – by m3g4d37h |
| cable modem to pc(5:36am est thu may 20 2004) hello, im wondering: i have this old cdlp modem, and im wondering what to do with it. i want to do something useful with it, but i dont know what. ny ideas? – by neggicusmaximus |
| g3t 1step here(5:40am est thu may 20 2004) – by onewithonestep |
| dsl uncap(1:17am est mon jun 14 2004) is tehre anyway to increase the upload speed on a dsl modem? – by mwrrz89 |
| uncappers(10:57pm est thu jun 24 2004) well, seeing as how your modem ip changes every couple months, it must have been a huge uncapp for it to throw up a red flag so fast. in 6 hours thats amazing, it is very hard for them to trace you and even when they do(like i said your ip changes) which then messes up how they catch you. i mean hes not a bad kid i would do the same. but from what i heard it is very hard to get caught unless you have a huge uncap.i do have some friends that have exsperimented with it. they have downloaded two hour movies in less than 15 minutes. going on three months now and they havent been caught on time warner cable. there is also uncappers for dsl modems, however i don't know to much about because i don't have dsl. none the less if you don't know waht your doing … stay away i mean even if there is only that little bit of a chance for you to get caught because who wants to go without internet? you could use a shittier service than the one you already have, but who wants to do that either? my advice it to go with and “optimizer” it will make a noticably better download time and its legal, because it just fixes the shitty crap your cable company gives you. if you want one of those just search on yahoo or google mine works fine. – by e |
| you all have it good in usa(9:49am est sun sep 05 2004) i am from australia. i am with telstra bigpond and pay $120/month (about $150 us) for 180kb/s download (1.5mb/sec plan). my previous plan cost me $75/month and my download speeds were capped at 60kb/sec. all you people in the usa are winging about only getting 600-4000kb/sec and paying $80us….lucky you. the cheapest plan here in australia is $35 ($42us) and is capped at 256mb/sec (30kb/sec. if i want download speeds of over 300kb/sec (3gb/sec) it will cost me $250 au (about $320 us). you guys got it good. imagine paying $150(us)/month and getting at the fastest 160kb/sec download (usually much slower though in real download speeds), well thats what we get in australia (thats is it is available in the area…) – by stop winging yanks |
| there is b and the there is b(2:04pm est wed sep 15 2004) i see alot of people making mistakes between bytes and bits here – by ataxy |
| initial subject(7:59pm est fri sep 17 2004) can somebody give me a link to the actual program that inspired this bit of news two years ago? – by nuclear monkey |
| how to use wireless second pc on cox cable modem(10:13am est mon sep 20 2004) i have a netgear wireless system that i am wanting to connect to my cox cable modem, but it appears cox has a software block not allowing one to use this device because they want to sell you their wireless system…any clue as to over ride this block? – by curious in tulsa |
| hacking the modem(1:41am est tue sep 28 2004) all broadband modems have a config file that the cap info is in, or course. this is what you would be changing. it's just getting the modem to accept it is the tricky part. as to the person above, yeah cox is full of *&&holes. doesnt surprise me what your saying, but if i had a look at it maybe i could do a work around for it. the only thing i think of is you may have it setup as a switch. this would cause a problem where you would be wanting cox to give you to ips when you may have signed up for only one. make sure you connect your modems ethernet cord to the spot marked wan on the netgear peice of equipment and your fine. this makes your router give the 2 comps the ips not cox and both should be on the internet at the same time. i have a router and i have 5 comps with 3 different ips on the web all the time. – by joesmo |
| re: you all have it good in usa(10:38am est sat oct 16 2004) that's bullshit up there mate. prices on telstra bigpond are cheap compared to the overloaded us system. the moron above who posted those comments is a tool. to give you guys a view of the network, here are a lot of factors. bigpond have a uncapped/128k unlimited plan where you are shaped after 10gb. this is priced at au$59.95, that's value because: the average home user has around a 80 – 200gb hard drive. in 12 months you can download 120gb at the fastest possible speed (10mb/sec), now take that down into movies, each one around 700mb each, you can get just over 120 movies on that plan. the shaping is at 64k. this means in one month if you use your 10gb, in aus it's very easy, my average download speed is almost always 8000kb/sec so, you live the rest of the month at the shaped speed. adsl. basic plan is 256k/64k, available to most australians for au$29.95 p/mth. once again value for the light user. if you only browse 3 days a week then you should be able to enjoy that plan. lists most of aussies isp's and all come in on a great network. poor usa overloaded and no solution. – by the criminal |
| re: you all have it good in usa(10:39am est sat oct 16 2004) that's bulls**t up there mate. prices on telstra bigpond are cheap compared to the overloaded us system. the mor8n above who posted those comments is a tool. to give you guys a view of the network, here are a lot of factors. bigpond have a uncapped/128k unlimited plan where you are shaped after 10gb. this is priced at au$59.95, that's value because: the average home user has around a 80 – 200gb hard drive. in 12 months you can download 120gb at the fastest possible speed (10mb/sec), now take that down into movies, each one around 700mb each, you can get just over 120 movies on that plan. the shaping is at 64k. this means in one month if you use your 10gb, in aus it's very easy, my average download speed is almost always 8000kb/sec so, you live the rest of the month at the shaped speed. adsl. basic plan is 256k/64k, available to most australians for au$29.95 p/mth. once again value for the light user. if you only browse 3 days a week then you should be able to enjoy that plan. lists most of aussies isp's and all come in on a great network. poor usa overloaded and no solution. – by the criminal |
| uncaping is right(11:57pm est fri nov 05 2004) services like at&t and such should give us full bandwith. – by modems |
| good reading(11:42pm est fri nov 12 2004) to be or not to be a hacker – by hacher |
| link to onestep(2:58am est mon nov 22 2004) nuff said – by usegooglegoddammit |
| your cable service sucks haha(7:34pm est sat dec 11 2004) i dont know who you guys are getting but i have 3.0 mb cable and im downloading a torrent uncapped right now at 2.8mbps so my service has held its deal and that speed is more then enuff.but i am goin to be looking to uncapp my modem haha – by infamouskiller |
| modem hack(7:31am est sat feb 05 2005) im using terayon 715 series and i have pooor connction of 750 kbit / 96 kb is there any way to hack and incrase the speed ? roman – by roman |
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| at&t charter and so on.(6:36pm est fri mar 04 2005) large companies like charter dtv dishnetwork and so on do nothing but rape us of our hard earned money and cry foul when someone finds away around there over pricing. i say congrats to the kid and if he ever decides he wants to learn more feel free to look me up. just think there are murders rapist and everything else on the loose and our hard earned tax dollars are being spent on finding “testers” fok em they use there big companies to get lobbiest turn the laws against us and make there raping of our money legal. – by crashoverkill |
| changing mac(12:38am est sun mar 20 2005) ive heard about this changing mac address thing, supposely all you have to do is fing one it your area and change your existing one which is esay enough but does it actually work – by wunder |
| whiners!(12:06pm est tue mar 22 2005) here i am in liberia, west africa paying 60 bucks a month for a 6kbps connection. shut up! – by liberiaman |
| bhaaaaaaa(11:13am est sat apr 09 2005) where to get one step utility for download – by marka |
| cox(2:19pm est mon apr 11 2005) has anyone successfully uncapped their modem and using cox? i'm thinking of uncapping but i wanna hear if anyone else has done it and been caught and what they did. – by ops_director |
| good lord(8:59pm est tue apr 12 2005) i cannot believe people are still discussing this after so long… i'm 22, nearly 23 years old now. the person that phoned me to interview for that particular situation, completely twisted my words… (as journalists sometimes do). this cracks me up… 3 years later and people are still babbling about this. – by myko |
| good lord indeed(3:22pm est wed apr 13 2005) dude (if you are actually the person mentioned in the story), it seems like you are among those still babbling about this. take your 15, check that 2 minutes, and ride off into the sunset. – by the monkey |
| cox ah!(2:43am est wed jun 01 2005) i wouldn't screw with cox. now that they have all these new security measures…i wish i wasn't with them. they block port 80 for web servers, only allow outgoing mail through their smtp server, etc… i called and they said i'd have to get a business account to remove some of the restrictions because “i would use too much bandwidth otherwise”. don't i pay for this bandwidth every month?! i wouldn't screw with them they'd ban you from their service and never let go. – by rdreavis |
| so like(10:17pm est thu jun 02 2005) i just like reading these comments. really, some of you people are idiots. the one from “english guy?” yeah, that guy doesn't know what the hell he's talking about. i just think this if funny ignorance is always funny. – by port 17 |
| bull crap(9:56pm est fri jun 03 2005) lets put it this way – i have cox cable and pay $40 per month, as do everyone in my home town – omaha, ne, and they boast speeds up to 100x faster then dialup… well i remember getting 5-6kbps (bytes) on a modem, up to 100x that would be 500kbps but i am capped at 1.5mbps (or 1500/8 =~ 190 kbps). they can't have it both ways – advertise these speeds and then cap them to save money! oh yea- cox boast over 10,000 (and that was a couple years ago) users at $40 a month is $400,000 per month or 4.8 million per year. cogent sells a 1000mbps link for $10,000 per year. so lets figure this – 1000/1.5 = 667 users or $26,600 a profit of $16,600. it is just greed. that means cox cable makes a profit of $248,000 per month on my neighbors but then imposses a cap. oh, and if i do have a cap of 1.5mbps down and 300k up – why can't i have services? profiteering corporations will be the end of us all! – by jason |
| hacking/stealing cable service(5:41pm est mon jul 04 2005) you know, i see everybody blaming people for hacking and “stealing service”, yet they dont blame the company for over charging and stealing money from the customers, who need their service fixed. you guys talk about the cable companys “having the right to bann cirtain customers for uncapping cable modems”, has anybody heard of the story of comcast getting banned from florida? they stole peoples money and didnt give them the service that the people were paying for. not to mention that people were out more than they were in. so needless to say people were stealing internet and tv because comcast was caring enough to what the people wanted. after comcast found out about the people stealing internet and tv, they decide to pull the allah, “everybody's stealing from us”. when the people who were stealing were called to court, the customers counter sued comcast for lack of internet and tv, thus making the plan backfire on comcast, everybody handed in their receipts as to what was being charged and had gotten, and after that comcast lost the lawsuit and got banned from florida. unfortunately they're back now due to a “custumer service problem”. so please anybody who condems anybody from stealing, they should only know what stealing is. i think that all the internet and cable company should all know what its like to have something stolen from them instead of blaming the custumers. my mother had the same problem with charter communications, because they never gave her the service that she was paying for, and all they kept on saying was, “if you want your service fixed, you can upgrade to the 3mb download service”. thatwas when she had the 384kb/s download and was only getting about 10kb/s all the time. so for any cable company who like to charge through the nose for too little service, i hope that people steal from them. for those who steal out of getting ripped off from cable companys, good for them, maybe the cable company will become just like comcast – by i wont tell |
| i get the bottom(1:46pm est wed jul 13 2005) sbc offers their dsl speed in michigan in “ranges”. the first level is 384k – 1.5mb down and 128k up. the next (pro) level is 1.5mb – 3.0mb down and 384k up. when i had the pro level, all i got was a 1.9mb down rating. it's in range, they won't do anything. i recently downgraded for budget reasons. i'm currently locked in at the very botom of the range, 384k down. ponder this: could they do anything if i uncapped my modem to get the top of the range i'm paying for? set my upper limit at 1.5mb down and let her ride. actually get what i'm paying for instead of being locked in at the lowest rate allowed by their rules! – by rob h |
| commercial applications(6:03am est fri jul 29 2005) i think uncapping to a certain degree sholdn't be a problem. i run a popular game server. so popular infact that i have one of the best home internet services available. the only way to upgrade woudl be to get 2mb/2mb sdsl at a cost of £9,000 ($18,000) a year. considering the only difference between that and my current £40($80)/mo is 1.8m of upload. i tihnk that's far too overpriced. now i don't have the know-how to be hacking stuff. and it'd play on my conscience, so i'm just keeping what i have and ignoring the hundreds of gamers that complain at me. my point is… why does faster upload speed have to cost so much more. nobody can afford it. – by gamehost |
| i love uncapping(6:29pm est sun aug 14 2005) uncapping is fun and works.i dont see why we cant force the isp to upgrade and this whole docsis crap is a joke docsis was formed by cox,rr,at&t to have a coax standard then someone made a company and stamped there modem called it docsis and charged millions. guess who has to take the hit once again us users. so screw the isp. they tell us 8mbit down and 768kbps up but notice in small fine print speeds may vary. this is bs they have the technology and the resources. i think its all a crock i mean there developing docsis 3.0 now to bind frequencies allowing 100mbit transfer rate or up to and beyond 1 gigabit on a cable modem. so there makign standards but not giving speeds how laim is this waste i tell you. what about our modems currently most can handle up to 38mbps down. but we barely get over 5-6mbps from our isp thats a fraction of what it can do. peace iam out – by yourmomma(uncap it) |
| sucks to be you guys(2:38pm est sat nov 26 2005) i pay just 40 buck a month for my service from comcast and i get a awesome speed of 4.5 down and 400 up and im still capped…i think its time for somebody to start looking at what comcast is doing and fix thier damn problem – by capped and fast |
| re dsl cm file(1:55pm est sun nov 27 2005) hi im em and although some one has stolen a connection by bridging the server which is technically theft you can do it yourselfe legally reprogram the cm file there was a tool but unfortionatly ive lost it.im on dsl and its shite i cant net work they record my ip and im pissed off.i tryied to order some amphetamines over the net and got a wacking virus that lost my hardrive.dsl hacking now thats a challenge what you have to do is break in to the telephone exchange and change the interface card manually as it is standard 2mbs.as for at& t it isnt theirs any more. ps try buldog we dont dont care about uploads yea the download tool patches the downloadable files together to enable more band width.wot a project. – by any thing illegal |
| cable modems(2:00pm est sun nov 27 2005) buy your own they cant do shit then. – by legaly |
| uncapping isn't always about speed(12:37pm est mon nov 28 2005) many cable internet providers block ports to and from our system supposedly to protect the net from spammers. but lets look at what is really going on. (for the purpose of this post 'in' means the connection originated from outside your computer and is coming in. out means the connection is originating at your computer and going out. a server running on your system normally but not always requires that the connection be incoming. also, except for smtp the server types mentioned can use any port, but this post is talking about thier standard ports, ie 21,23,80, etc…) blocking smtp in/out = only need to block outgoing to stop spammers. blocking incomming forces you to use someone elses email server. this results in you being on a well known email server, that spammers target with huge lists of random account names. blocking http in = http is not used by spammers, it's not a push technology. blocking http forces you to use someone elses web server. if a spammer were wanting a web server for popups, they'd rather use someone elses server, as it's harder to track and get shutdown. blocking ftp in = ftp is a file transfer protocal that predates peer to peer file sharing. ftp servers require a user to have permission to access any of the files on the server. ftp is completely useless for spammers. blocking telnet in = telnet is not useful for spamming at all. telnet allows access to a text based server running on your system, the nature of this server could be remote access, or a massively multiplayer online text adventure game (traditionally called a mud or multi user dungeon). – by annoyed |
| uncapping isn't always about speed(12:38pm est mon nov 28 2005) there is only one reason cable internet providers block these ports and it has nothing to do with spammers, it has to do with business. simply put, they think only businesses need to run thier own servers, and thus if you want to run your own server, you must have a business. and they want you to pay 3 times as much and get half the bandwidth to use them as an isp for your business. but you know what? an isp resells bandwidth, and there are laws regarding businesses selling to one another. these laws state that a business may not mark up thier wares more that 10% when selling to another business. as such the isps (and indeed the entire communicatons industry) are violating the law in this reguard. as each and every communications company charges the small businesses 10x – 100x what they pay for the bandwidth. but, they only do that to the small businesses. the large corporations, they give the 10% to, because they know they would sue each other over it if they didn't. – by annoyed |
| who care?(1:43am est wed dec 21 2005) screw you and boo hoo! – by anony-mouse |
| hehehe(1:52pm est tue dec 27 2005) merry x-mas to all you think your speeds are slow??? i'm paying for an adsl 384 and works for 256. and when i ask why? the isp blaims the telephone company and the telephone company replies” we wil check it” and the cost is 45euros per month for this kind of line!!! hope 2006 is a better adsl year! – by greece |
| wake up isp's(1:37pm est sat jan 07 2006) this should be a sign to the isp's to update their data sevices to fiberoptics seeing that more and more people want the high speeds at a resonable cost, 60$ a month is way to much for only 4mb conetion. – by fume |
| you all pay too much(1:29am est sun feb 05 2006) well i think you all pay too much money for internet i only pay $40 a month for 10 mb down and 2.5 mb up dsl sucks… cable is better – by viper |
| wow. never expected as much chat(3:36pm est sat feb 25 2006) i was shocked when i was playing around at home and noticed a sever dropoff. my wife was uploading photos to shutterbug online through a cat35 to the wireless hub and my connections all but died. at work i am use to 1500kbs down/up or 3000 down/up. (depending on the site) i check at home, sure enough comcast cable modem 6meg down/359 kbs up. i called and i can pay an extra $10 a month to have 8megs/786 kbs. checked with at&t and it's 10 megs (they say) and what they done say is 192kbs upload. they should not be allowed to bait people. if i am told i should get 6 megs then it should be 6 up and down. lone live the small print and deceptive practice. – by mystic |
| cable(9:08am est wed mar 29 2006) i have adelphia cable and is fast as heck at 42 bucks a month…that kids needs to go outside and do other things like play ball or ride bike…im not saying that being on a computer is bad….just limit it some – by sledge |
| wtf(8:52pm est tue may 16 2006) ive never signed or read any paper work or agreements/policys with my current cable provider. so does this mean i can uncap legaly? – by stiffy in the ass |
| well(10:04am est fri jul 28 2006) i was tryin to uncap my surfboard modem n half way thtrough i thought fk dis i might get caught, so i canceled the uncapping. then my ip address changed n i couldnt get a connection so i reinstalled the isp service cd – by asdg |
| well well (10:53am est tue aug 01 2006) be happyy guys with 384kbps u guys have in india we guyys get a mere 64kbps common and if ur lucky at the max 256kbps with a 1gb limit can u believe that – by krish |
| cable from blueyonder(8:01pm est fri aug 04 2006) i live in torquay, uk. i am benifiting from a nice speed of 10mbps downstream and 384kbps up. do you know how much this costs? 35 quid a month. thats 66 dollars or 52 euros. i was thinking of unlocking the modem for free connection. they are selling them on ebay. they'd never be able to trace you cables are same everywhere! they track you using mac address registered to customer. i know someone who works there! what you recon. ideas anyone? – by aaron |
| great article(1:47am est wed aug 09 2006) you have given me the solution to my problem of low bandwidth. i found the derangel site and got the tools and it works great. my isp is bunch of monopolizing theives who sell 64kpbs for $24 a month and with lots of interruptions. if they ever terminate my service, i will take them to the court and get money from them becasue they will never be able to prove that i uncapped using the derangel stuff. all glory to a saint like derangel who has come to the rescue of customers who are abused by isps all over the world – by sam |
| un-capping(11:23pm est tue aug 22 2006) i work for a major mso and we have a guy in our division that just looks for uncappers. if he sees one, he sends them a new config file that slows them down to 56k speeds. is this right, yes it is. usualy in our system, the d/l bandwidth is 38mb/s per 4-6 nodes. a node is between 150-300 active modems on average. now if we have some uncapper out there, we'll notice it almost immediatly. if not by our guy, then buy our national operations center. you can see the spike in bandwidth usage on the node and see which mac is using all of the u/l & d/l bandwidth. this only harms the paying subs by slowing them down. if everyone plays by the rules, we can make everyone happy by providing them there rates they pay for. yes speeds will increase and there will always be some people that are never satisified. i get an 8mbs down 512kbs up connection and i average 7.87mbs down and 495kbs up. your sppeds all depend on line condtions from your tap all the way back to the node. if those are all within design it's usualy inside the house. usualy it's subscriber installed wireing and/or equipment. if you are having issues with your isp and thier speeds, work with them. all cable companies do on-site service and this should be requestied for slow/intermitant connections. usualy you can get within 20% of your isp's advertised speeds except on congested nodes. dsl, fiber, and cable all limit thier bandwidths for usage reasons. they want to provide a resonable price to customers that do not need alot of bandwidth. the ones that want the higher bandwidth should pay more because it costs the isp more. as we consume more and more bandwidth the price will drop and sppeds will go up. just rember what you used to pay for 56k dialup when that was all that was avalable. $30-$60 a month for 1.5-8mbs down dosent begin to look bad now does it? – by cblguy |
| i agree(10:13pm est tue sep 12 2006) i work in it and i can easily say home users (especially if you live in the sf bay area or silicon valley) have it good, i pay $50 a month round abouts for cale internet, and cable tv, i can download 4-5 files off of microsoft at 500k+ a sec. with 4-5 live pc's at my house thats damn good. i have 3 t1s at sites and pay 800 each for them. – by ken |
| im suffering(12:25pm est fri sep 29 2006) i live in a 3rd world country (south east asia) and these days im getting 15kbits download & 25kbits upload from a connection i pay $25/month. i was previosly getting 100kbits down and 120kbits up for 4 months but then the company capped everyone to 15kbits. for 3yrs i have this connection and there has been no improvement in speeds. when i asked the company why did they cap me at 15kbits, they say thats wut u are supposed to get since ur connection is 128kbits with a contention ratio of 10:1. this is not fair, why did they let us taste 100kbits before and then suddenly cap us ??… during 5 years the world has gone forward with more speeds at less cost but we are still stuck where we were 4 years ago. should i not uncap my modem?? atleast to 100kbits ?? it is so unrealistic!, downloading an episode of my favourite show (350mb) takes a day, i cant imagine downloading documentaries above 1gb. – by naveed |