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Originally Posted by JordanTheToaster
Still don't understand how this isn't a problem for Americans but here its a thing you can't do.
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
I believe that consumer law in the USA is the factor there. Whether or not that has ever introduced the abuse that Kush mentioned, I can't say.
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Originally Posted by Kushan
I think the difference is the network in the UK is (was?) a lot less secure. AS I said, being able to plug a cloned modem in and for it to "just work" was something that DOCSIS 1.1 fixed, but VM (NTL/TW) didn't seem to implement those best practices until relatively recently - if at all.
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In the US most of the cable providers charge a rental fee for their supplied modem. Buying and using your own gets rid of that.
However I understand that even if you do use your own, it has to be from a set of approved modems, and once it's registered then the provider still has final control over it.