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You have to be paying for the "Pipeline" service in order to connect to the Charter network in your area.  If you aren't paying for it then you probably bought a modem with 'hacked' firmware or 'hacked' it yourself.  Either way, that's pretty dishonest and you shouldn't do that.  Just pay.

Ignore my last comment.  Cable is too high and everyone should steal it.   

Charter upload is now 512 kbps.  Download is 5 mbits.  If you don't have it yet call for an upgrade. 

P.S. It's $10 more.  They are just now rolling it out and some areas of MA have it along with St. Louis market.

My cousin works for Charter and he told me it was not possible to do this.  In order to have a provisioned modem, you must have the Internet Service.  They will not provision a modem for you unless you are paying for their internet service currently.  If you ask to have a modem provisioned and you don't have internet service they will catch it immediately and require you to get it before your cable modem's MAC address can be assigned to their system in any way.  In addition, when your modem "communicates" with their systems it asks for firmware and the bitrate at which it is allowed to operate.  If you are not assigned a service level, how will your modem know which config file to take?  It won't!  Internet service is absolutely required to gain access to the system.  Don't try this people...if you do you are wasting time and also money that you spent buying a modem.  Also, the comment about splitting off your internet service and watching TV without paying is also very unlawful and highly illegal.  Just because everyone else steals cable doesn't mean you should.  Do what you know is right.

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That is incorrect.  Basic cable is channels 1-13, +/- some (depending on your market).  Basic Expanded or Extended cable is 1-13 plus 50 to 80 more channels depending on your service area.  Pipeline is the internet service and has nothing at all to do with Basic Expanded or Basic cable.  They are two totally different areas of servicing.  Basic Expanded & Basic are TV and Pipeline is internet.

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Thank you for your fast reply.  I'll try these settings on my computer and if it makes a big difference I'll let you know how I make out.  If it's not a very big difference I'll just let it be.  Maybe I'll get a significant increase.