dan2525:
I guess I wanted to share something that was a good thing for a lot of us. While I am aware that it was a lower court decision and that the ramifications of someone else doing this may entail results that were much different than mine. I dont know what the outcome would be in other cases. Like I indicated in my original thread, I do not suggest that anyone do this.
In reality I was never going to post anything about this incident until that is RR started acting a fool - threating my livelyhood - and having me arrested. I had conteplated it before hand once or twice during the two month period that i was using the codes religously. When I got arrested I thought then that "Those SOB's, could have just called me, sent a letter , email , something".But they didn't, they wanted to make an example out of me. When that happened I posted as soon as possible. People do not realize what a powerful medium the Internet is. However I hesitated posting the codes and method because of the possible legal re-percussions at that time (and still hesitate - for about three months when my obligation is fulfilled under the agreement), and also because of the influence it would have on the net.Can you imagine thousands of people on the internet with cable modes uncapped ? I am sure that a lot of systems would be bought to their knees. I think I have already mentioned that.So then I needed to think and act responsibly.
Where did I see all this going ?
I saw it going into a common pool of collective knowledge. To explain a bit. There are a lot of smart people out there. Some think they are smart, and some not so smart when it comes to technology of this type. If information like this were available in a common pool with all the other accumulated knowledge about cable modem use - the reg tweeks - the trouble shooting tips, I think in time that the cable companies would listen to the people that pay them and keep them in business. That they would began to realize that the people out there have access to the same knowledge, that cable has, about what they are paying for. That a salesman could not sell them a bill of goods anymore with words like "Up to" and "theorically" and then when you try to achieve that, what you thought you were paying for and in reality were sold, people would be able to say "hey wait a minute, I can do that." If this were available and the cable companies thought that they could not control it anymore it would force them in a short while to respond to customer demand and deliver the bill of goods that they sold. This would in the long run be in the cable companies best interest I guess because of the revenue in increased sales and staying ahead of the competition. It would be in our (cable users as a collective) best interest immediately and in the future because it would force cable to stay ahead of its self. What I mean by stay ahead of its self is that company xyz would then update their technology to beat out cable (as DSL is doing in a lot of areas right now) this in turn would force cable to keep ahead of them and so forth and so on. Technology is a canibalistic animal that demands the next one be better and stronger and then feeds upon its self to do that, the little people (subscribers) get what is left from these "feedings". We the subscribers either benefit or suffer from the results so why shouldn't we force the hand that we pay for ?
I was hoping to disclose something that had been kept a secret and could only work to our benefit as a whole. I am not so sure now because there are those - obviously- that seek to keep people like me and others in the dark by berating and decrying new ideas and concepts with what they think, or think they think,should happen. They know it all and that anything outside their rhelm of reference is not the truth and to be attacked and pushed away. No wonder cable service is so crappy in some areas - because poeople can not come together thru knowledge and make them act responsibily. How many times have you called the cable company only to get some poor guy to help you that doesn't know a single thing outside the canned scripts he is given to read off to you ? Why dont you have direct access to the higher tiers of support you are paying for ? Why do you need to talk to someone who wants to do the same tests ("oh your cable light isn't on - well open up a dos window and type ping <A HREF="
http://www.yahoo.com"" TARGET=_blank>www.yahoo.com"</A> - actually happened to me once) over and over again and the problem is so obvious? Why when you talk to cable, and obviously know what your talking about, they treat you like a small school child ? I'll tell you why - they are afraid of you knowing more than they do - thats why. If you know more than they do then they have to deliver to keep ahead of you because they then know that they need to deliver on their promises to keep getting paid - in short you pay them and they should work for you. Cable delivers what it delivers because they know that as long as they control the knowledge and can keep the issues confused by treating you the way they do, they can give you any type of service they want and you have to live with it. Knowledge is power - and when you have more then they do - and thru the cable modem users community as a whole or at least a majority - thru this we send a message. Did you know that you can not buy headend software from motorola unless your a cable company ? Why is that ? Its because cable wants the knowledge kept from you and me. Why? I am sure some of you would cite "Oh its propriatary" or some such drivel. The real reason is becuse if you had it would would be able to see just what the interaction is between the headend and your cable modem, be able to overcome it in some fashion and as a result find out that you are capped when you dont need to be, and your paying to be capped. People everyday who know people in the local cable company get their caps lifted by their friends at the cable company by having access to the headend provisioning. And you are paying for them to use their friendship to get special favors. Why should you not have the same privilage ?
I guess this pretty much explains it, as to why I decided to post. Some of it may be a little disjointed - but its hard to explain a concept sometimes so that others and everyone hears the same thing.
About posting the codes and method - haven't decided yet.
P.S
http://www.midsouth.rr.com/rr_new/index.html
click on the link to the left that says "How does it work"
I thought that they had deleted this page but evidently they havent. See near the top of the page (after going to How Does It Work)where it states :
"The modems are technically capable of throughput speeds of 8 to 27 Mb/s in the downstream path and the upstream path ranges from 1 - 3 Mb/s."
Thats what was sold to me.
Originally posted by dan2525:
Violent - You're obviously a bright guy with better than average general computer skills. You understand the LAN/shared bandwidth concepts of the cable system. I was wondering what sort of response or outcome you were envisioning from your original post? You warned people of all the hassle you went through but you were contemplating sharing the uncapping method. As bright as you are, you must realize that you're situation is unique, localized and based on the findings of what I assume is a lower level court judge (I can't remember if you mention what the court level was) and that the odds of someone else having the same outcome have to be slim to non-existant. You'd also know what would happen if enough people on your node uncapped and that if you released the sniffer logs, you'd have no way of knowing if someone who used them was on your node. Where did you see all this going?
[This message has been edited by Violent (edited 07-13-2000).]
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