Cloned Modems and STM

[Chrysalis]

its sad to see trax has been censored I would like to think this site hasnt got a bias.

We have no idea how accurate the 35% is, but factor in he used to work for ntl and would have been in a position to know, the 35% is a past figure which may well be lower now. My own take on things is that I know dodgy tv boxes are very widespread, I know more people with cloned modems than legit modems (seriously) and he is quite right that if it was only a small % then VM wouldnt care one bit.

[eth01]

Originally Posted by Chrysalis

its sad to see trax has been censored I would like to think this site hasnt got a bias.

We have no idea how accurate the 35% is, but factor in he used to work for ntl and would have been in a position to know, the 35% is a past figure which may well be lower now. My own take on things is that I know dodgy tv boxes are very widespread, I know more people with cloned modems than legit modems (seriously) and he is quite right that if it was only a small % then VM wouldnt care one bit.

er, it's not for us to speculate what's happened... let's move on to something more civilized...

[Rob]

TraxData requested his account be deleted.

[ceedee]

Originally Posted by Jelly

His account's been deleted, by the looks of things.

Hardly "Many happy returns" then?


Edit: Hope he reappears as a new alias (and less of the glare of unwanted publicity).

[Rob]

Time to return to the topic now please.

Originally Posted by Jelly

His account's been deleted, by the looks of things.

[Fatec]

Originally Posted by Chrysalis

its sad to see trax has been censored I would like to think this site hasnt got a bias.

We have no idea how accurate the 35% is, but factor in he used to work for ntl and would have been in a position to know, the 35% is a past figure which may well be lower now. My own take on things is that I know dodgy tv boxes are very widespread, I know more people with cloned modems than legit modems (seriously) and he is quite right that if it was only a small % then VM wouldnt care one bit.

Just to clarify, i havent been censored, i did request for my account to be deleted.

It was not due to anyone on here or anything public, my health is just very bad right now to the point where i no longer have time nor the will power to keep fighting on as i have more important things in my life to try and get back on track (health, gf, alot of things going on).

The 35% Was accurate at the last count, that was just before all the hits went out, i know it was a significent drop after that and as i'm sure some of you know, alot of peoples speeds shot up to what they should be, except in area's where the network is falling apart of course.

In alot of places you only had to walk up to a local tech and he'd sell you a modem/tv box, or the pub, or the market, pretty much everywhere really, the reason they had to stop it is because it got so huge and was causing big amounts of strain on the network with some people running 4 x cloned modems for the upload speed while having 4 talkback cable tv boxes also, the worst of it all for the most part was the amount of extra noise this created in those area's which is down alot now.

[Bonglet]

I entierly agree with you trax i have seen how widespread it is now and how easy you can get this kit, vm really need to have a serious re-think about so many upcoming issues or they are in some serious deep stuff especially in this economic climate.

[Nedkelly]

Trax is right it is to easy for techs to sell stuff .But we have seen some contractors sacked as they can not account for missing boxes which is good and we have had our doubts on some techs but could not prove it .

Originally Posted by Nedkelly

Trax is right it is to easy for techs to sell stuff .But we have seen some contractors sacked as they can not account for missing boxes which is good and we have had our doubts on some techs but could not prove it .

The other day there was a card in Morrison's here on the buy and sell board.

Want cable ?

Have the full package and Broadband all for a one off fee. Then there was a mobile number. Its gone now but someone round here must be making a small fortune. Think of the exposure an add in Morrison's would get.

Its a first for here using Morrison's, Normally they just leaflet drop through the door.

From what i can gather there using a completely different box altogether from the VM issued ones.

[Zhadnost]

I've never met anyone who has a cloned modem/TV box, but I have seen a man in a pub wearing a virgin media jacket selling a TV box.

I wonder what the figure is more like now.