karthic Posted February 14, 2006 CID Share Posted February 14, 2006 what is meant a modem i learnt that uncapping a modem increses the speed of the connection is it true ? is it legal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
php Posted February 14, 2006 CID Share Posted February 14, 2006 Welome to the forum It is true, and illegal.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted February 14, 2006 CID Share Posted February 14, 2006 With the newer modems it is just about impossible.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted February 14, 2006 CID Share Posted February 14, 2006 Just about . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted February 14, 2006 CID Share Posted February 14, 2006 what is meant a modem i learnt that uncapping a modem increses the speed of the connection is it true ? is it legal? yes it makes it faster much faster, and its very illegal, and very hard, on most docsis 1.0 modems it can be done. on docsis 2.0 modems its near imposable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rammolo Posted February 14, 2006 CID Share Posted February 14, 2006 Usually modem capping is done on ISP end not yours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcin541 Posted February 14, 2006 CID Share Posted February 14, 2006 yes but you download the file which caps you, you can make it not download Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disturbed Posted February 15, 2006 CID Share Posted February 15, 2006 true.....you can also get sued if ur isp finds our what ur doing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurupted Posted February 15, 2006 CID Share Posted February 15, 2006 Well an ISP has only ever sued 2 people for uncapping thier modems and now there is no known method way to uncap any modem other than the Motorola Surfboard 4100 and previous versions of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted February 15, 2006 CID Share Posted February 15, 2006 "now there is no known method way to uncap any modem other than the Motorola Surfboard 4100 and previous versions of it." Untrue, but I'm not going to go into detail on how you can uncap newer versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peepnklown Posted February 15, 2006 CID Share Posted February 15, 2006 It wouldn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|3v|lon3| Posted February 15, 2006 CID Share Posted February 15, 2006 site edited* a good buddy of mine works there.. custom firmware and yes u can ride around with a laptop and get other peoples mac ids and come home WITH YOUR CUSTOM firmware input the mac id and serial off u go dont say it cant be done ive done it.. Don't link to a website like this again while explaining how you can commit crimes. Shug7272 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
php Posted February 15, 2006 CID Share Posted February 15, 2006 www.testmy.net a good buddy of mine works there.. custom firmware and yes u can ride around with a laptop and get other peoples mac ids and come home WITH YOUR CUSTOM firmware input the mac id and serial off u go dont say it cant be done ive done it.. Don't link to a website like this again while explaining how you can commit crimes. Shug7272 yes, I'm sure Alltel would love to hear of your exploits... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|3v|lon3| Posted February 15, 2006 CID Share Posted February 15, 2006 go ahead if u knew alltel was a dsl isp.. Vista 3 Media call them up thats who i was with matter of fact i still have the cable modem with the modded firmware Topic Locked Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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