What most do not realize is that most people now use the Toshiba modems with
the proprietary DOCSIS and
even if you have a Motorola modem they now cap at the switch!
So unless you know someone at Road Runner that can slip and change your
switch you still
get capped at the source not on your end!
There has been a lot of myths that you can uncap your modem at your end you
can not.
If by a freakish chance it was changed and could be done they would catch
this within 24 hours and you could
get into allot of trouble.
One you are hacking into a piece of equipment that is not yours! Next they
could press criminal charges!
Now if you have a friend who works for TW that has a Business class modem
you could get it to authorize a higher
bandwidth. How ever again they will catch this very quickly.
The best thing that AOL/TW can do is since they Raised the rates is to offer
more servers and switches to give you higher bandwidth. How ever this will
never happen.
The thing that sucks is that they use to rant and rave how much faster it is
then DSL now they give you DSL or slower speeds!
This is a bunch of Crap that they pull but as the saying goes the Golden
rule. He who has the Gold makes the Rule!
Also as mentioned they now rate your speed being so many times faster then a
28.8 dialup! <-This is a old standard with the Dinosaur! Next they will go
back to 14.400 then 2400 baud!
As far as capping speed this should be illegal you pay for something then
they change the rules and standards at will because in each area they are a
monopoly! Allot of good the FCC did you have to offer other services yeah
AOL and Road Runner both
AOL / TW ran in allot of areas then oh yeah will give you one other ISP to
use not theirs how ever they are now capping the speeds of Earthlink Cable
now as well according to the NewsGroups for AOL /TW Roadrunner in tampabay
area!
-----Original Message-----
From: Ter <ter450@tampabay.rr.com>
To: slug@nks.net <slug@nks.net>
Date: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 8:06 PM
Subject: [SLUG] Something to look at for cable modems..
>I recommend that you do not do this, but interesting to check out.
>http://www.rmvtechnology.com/derengel/
>One of the guru's of 10 meg bandwidth.
>Pete
>
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