Hacking the Cable Modem: What
Cable Companies Dont Want You to
Know by DerEngel
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Personal Review: Hacking the Cable Modem: What Cable
Companies Dont Want You to Know by DerEngel
First of all I want to object to the comment titled "How to be a Theif"
This Earlier comment suggests the book should be banned, and it will get
you arrested if you follow it's instructions. The truth is in most cases, there
is little cost benefit to go after everyone that bends the rules as long as
they are not causing a service disruption or running up too much in tarrifs
(which don't exist too much these days) Of course in come cases in
America and Australia a few people will get sued as a token gesture to
scare the masses into submission]. It also varies on your ISP. Some ISP's

(as detailed in the book) has deployed various forms of countermeasures.
But on HFC networks you can almost get away with murder if you do Mac
Cloning.
I've worked in IT 12 years. I'm have a very analytical mind and I love to
understand how things work. Is it a crime to be curious? I thought in
America book burning and witch hunting finished a long time ago, and
since then there has been a few constitutional amendments and a bill of
rights. The latter of which not even other democracy's like Australia has.
Maybe he is akin the same guy that wanted to put Phill Zimmerman in jail
for allowing everyone to have secure private communications with the
advent of PGP. Oh that was published in a book too. And PGP was
classified as export restricted military technology at the time. It was
declared a lawful act of publishing by the courts. In other words, just on the
legal points he has no case to stop anyone reading this, or buying this
book.
Right now America and my home country (Australia) lag behind the rest of
the world because inferior network infrastructure is being overcharged by
telco's raking in huge profits for the better off stock owners.
The customers in Australia for example under Optus get every form of
capping there is (snmp metering, rate limiting, filters, strobes for services,
etc) and then traffic shaping and off-site network accounting as a backup -
because this book was too effective. That's right Optus had to role out
more expensive switching hardware to regain control because people
didn't like having equipment they own being rate limited, and remotely
configured.
Right now I'm in Korea where FTTH (Fibre to the Home) costs only $30
USD a month on a contract (100mbit each way). In Australia they are still
mulling over getting FTTN (node street - then VDSL or Docsis 3.0 or
slower broadband variants) in the many years to come. Korea's has had it
for as long as I can remember.
Do you really think with so much bandwidth on Korea's network they will
mind if an artful network Engineer helps get a P2P video conferencing
network platform of the ground in his home lab with his 10mbit uplink using
a Motorola SB4100 someone threw in the trash it was so old?
My project will in turn allow other users to leverage the nations' network
infrastructure for on-line personal development, i.e. education. Then more
Asian's can take US customer service roles with impeccable English.
That's a good payback for their investment. Damn right! They paid for the
network and they have so much capacity in reserve it's not funny. No
wonder Korea is already submitting more patents to the US Patent office
than Americans. Don't worry, I'll try and recruit American's to teach them

too. But unfortunately American's will have to pay about 5 times what the
Korean's do to get the same bandwidth, and that fibre connection is limited
to only a few zip codes.
So how unethical is someone uncapping in my case going to be? The most
I could get is 10mbit U/L, and 30 mbit if in invested in a BlackCat'ed
SB5100 cable modem, when everyone else is buying 100mbit for $30 a
month.
Then again the poster above thinks your stealing? I'd say the thief's are the
cable companies back in the US and Australia. How much government
grants did Optus (now foreign owned by Singtel - SG Govt) take in
Government grants to roll out their fibre and support AARNET (Australian
Academic Research Network), yet the QoS their customers get are a lot to
be desired. I just got a customer a $1500 refund from the TIO (Telco
Ombudsman) on their Voice over DSL offering. So my prior comments on
their other products and services have weight backed up by determination
by a government regulator.
If you google it you'll find the posts on whirlpool. Back then there was was
a bunch of Telcho phoney's challenging me. But in the end I got the data to
prove my case 100%, and won in the tribunal. This is no different.
Get used to freedom of speech ;) It's not outlawed last time I checked.
P.S. I read the great book. Only disappointment, not enough emphasis on
alternatives for the Unix users, but hey they usually know what to do
anyway ;) It's less of a walk through book as you would expect, and
focuses a bit on the theory and his history of experimentation. Next there
are the avenues that can be employed to get more from your cable
modem, and of course the risks involved. In order words this book will get
the ball rolling, educate you and make you ready to carefully make any
changes you need TO YOUR OWN EQUIPMENT ;) Merely gaining access
to your own equipment is not a crime, however if you configure it to provide
you a higher class BE CAREFUL. Remember they have to unplug ever
different node in the street to find where you are ;)
After buying this book I'm confident I can get a speed increase I need.
Where I am staying because I'm a foreigner I'm not entitled through
conventional means to get fastest internet, unless someone gets it in their
name for me.

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