would uncapping be cracking?

[woods]

well? would it be considered hacking/craking?

[Kingslayer]

No it's considered theft of service. Punishable by law, not ISP.

[AZN]

yes, and it also not a topic u can discuss here. end of story

AZN

[woods]

that is why I asked. Just wanted to know.

[TC]

Please don't try it - it's flat out not worth it.

[AZN]

TC how would u know;) jk bro

AZN

[{PMS}fishy]

I do not even understand how its done, but for it to be hackabel, i can deduce that its software. Are there not hardware means that could stop all this theaft?

[roYal]

Originally posted by AZN
yes, and it also not a topic u cant discuss here. end of story

AZN


i don't wanna sound like a smart ass, but you should edit your cant, to can, because what you said is a double negative which means you can discuss it here. not a topic you cant discuss > not a topic you can dicuss.

Sorry, i don't wanna sound like a smartass.

[AZN]

lmao u know what royal. I had it with can originally, but for some reason when i read it again it sounded to me as u can discus it here. I the king of wrong grammer and typos haha. No u arent a smartass i like u bro.

AZN

[Demont]

what if we referred to it as cable modem overclocking? ha ha j/k :p

[woods]

i like that idea

[AZN]

OC modem, LMAO thats a good one.:)
u can, its called OS tweaking. But the uncapping is different story and is setup by the provider. Like stealing cable channels.

Win98 and under will need tweaking to get full bandwidth. I had to change a few setting like RWIN and MTU in the reg.

AZN

[TC]

Well, for technical purposes only here's how this works. I'm not going to tell you how to uncap, but for anyone interested in how cable modems work here goes. When your cable modem is first turned on it looks for a dhcp server to get an IP address. Once it does that it tries to find a tftp server to download a configuration file from your service provider. This config file includes, among other things, the download and upload rates. They can assign different rates to different people by assigning a specific configuration to a modem's mac address. Charter for instance has a pricing structure based on bandwidth. You essentially pay for a certain configuration file for the modem. You can probably guess how this uncapping is done. Most providers are making it nearly impossible by forcing the modem to show that it got its config file from them, and not somewhere else. If not your modem gets a reset command.

Having said all of that, I would say uncapping falls under theft of services more than hacking. You're not hacking into their system. You are stealing bandwidth that you're not paying for, and they can definitely toss you in jail if they want to pursue it.

[WyrmMaster]

Pluss, isnt the record time from uncap to busted something on the order of 8 HOURS?

[Oni]

Uncappers should be strung up by their toes w/ a length of Cat5e. I have no sympathy for people who are going to steal my bandwidth that I pay for w/ my own money.

[Spec_Ops2087]

they also do random ping checks to your modem to make sure you are getting the proper speeds...they did that to me and cought my router =\....so that kills the purpose to uncap since you cannot just block them...their are ways around it but will NOT be discussed here...

And for the record most companies will give you 30 days to turn off your uncapping stuff and then they will cancel your service...I have yet to see someone go to jail for uncapping....the majority of compaines would rather just cancel you...( it is easier and costs less money:rolleyes: )


Spec

[Cheng]

Not trying to sound like another smart ass, but the use of cannot' or 'can't' is not really true; its a contradicitive word, i.e. can not, directly contradiciting that you can dtraight away. Or something. Yes, I'm confused too ;)

[bdf24]

I remember reading an article a while back where a number of people were actually arrested for using accesive bandwith. Meaning more then what they paid for. I wish I could remember where this was but I don't.