Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
16-03-2010, 18:40
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Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
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Originally Posted by *sloman*
Wasnt that done a few months back with encrypted configs?
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Nope. Well if you look on other forums you can see that they are still in use
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16-03-2010, 18:58
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Prudence my arse
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Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
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Originally Posted by Hiroki
Nope. Well if you look on other forums you can see that they are still in use
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But no way near as many. 
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16-03-2010, 21:41
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Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
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But no way near as many. |
Haha that's a fair point.
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16-03-2010, 21:45
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Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
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Haha that's a fair point. |
Perhaps once N3 has rolled out they will look at killing the dodgy Modems
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16-03-2010, 22:11
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Prudence my arse
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Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
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Originally Posted by Tony.
Perhaps once N3 has rolled out they will look at killing the dodgy Modems
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I hope so
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16-03-2010, 22:11
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Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
Lets hope. Next door have four of them.
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17-03-2010, 22:13
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Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
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Lets hope. Next door have four of them.
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4!!!!!!!
sugar, i wouldn't like to live on the same street as that person no bandwidth!
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17-03-2010, 22:15
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Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
RE: The Dodgy Boxes
The sooner they do Manchester, the better, the amount of people I know that have dodgy boxes irritates me. They wont be gloating soon...I hope
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18-03-2010, 21:17
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Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
just looked on ebay for the common names nokia dbox2 currently £50 with 5 bids buy it now £119!!!!!
The title says 100% working 300 channels etc, i so want to post a note saying not for long hahahahaha
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19-03-2010, 18:44
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Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
A guy at my local is bragging about being able to get hold of dodgy boxes, when I told him about this new roll-out he reckoned it only affects boxes where the card is dodgy, he reckons his method involved entering some sort of code in to the box and when VM switch the channels off you simply put in a new code - I'm assuming he's talking bobbins?
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19-03-2010, 19:00
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Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
[simplified explanation]
Yep, the code is dependant on the daily key, with the old system it was fairly easy to work out the key and even to predict the keys, with the new system no-one yet has worked out how to get the key..
So yes all you have to do is put in a new code, problem is that he won't have the new code..
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19-03-2010, 19:00
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Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
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Originally Posted by Russ
A guy at my local is bragging about being able to get hold of dodgy boxes, when I told him about this new roll-out he reckoned it only affects boxes where the card is dodgy, he reckons his method involved entering some sort of code in to the box and when VM switch the channels off you simply put in a new code - I'm assuming he's talking bobbins?
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He is talking about third party boxes such as the Eurovox which aren't modified Virgin Media set top boxes. The rollout will shut these off as they are changing the encryption and these encryption codes he's on about only work for the current encryption system. So yes he is talking a load of rubbish. 
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19-03-2010, 19:01
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Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
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Originally Posted by Russ
A guy at my local is bragging about being able to get hold of dodgy boxes, when I told him about this new roll-out he reckoned it only affects boxes where the card is dodgy, he reckons his method involved entering some sort of code in to the box and when VM switch the channels off you simply put in a new code - I'm assuming he's talking bobbins?
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Definitely talking bobbins.
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19-03-2010, 19:48
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Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
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Originally Posted by *sloman*
4!!!!!!!
sugar, i wouldn't like to live on the same street as that person no bandwidth!
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Yeah i know it's a joke isn't it? My bandwith isn't really affected though tbh. But then again i only use it for mainly surfing the net and using this forum and the other one. I don't use XBOX live or anything. I sometimes download through itunes now and again but it aint too bad.
Next door aren't the sort of people you can report though. 
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19-03-2010, 20:05
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Prudence my arse
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Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
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Originally Posted by ahardie
Definitely talking bobbins. |
agreed
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