Registered Computers

[roblewis]

When Broadband is installed it requests thay you register your computer. However following registration there is some difficulty in accessing NTL Site to find out which computers are recorded under a specific account number. Anyone aware of how this difficulty can be resolved:angel:

[paulyoung666]

hi and :welcome: to the site , are you not confusing this with the modem registration , i aint ever had to register a computer :confused:

[scrotnig]

Set Top Box broadband registers your computer, or more specifically, its MAC address.

[paulyoung666]

that was what i was thinking , it would be the mac address not the actual pc :)

[Ramrod]

....so it's the router thats 'registered', if you are using one

[SMHarman]

Unless your router has a cloned mac address from the PC

[Marge]

You can register upto 5 pc's via the STB Broadband, if you reach the limit then it would ask you to delete one/some of the already registered ones. The only time you can access this page is if either a refresh hit is sent to the STB or if you are adding a new pc onto the BB service in which case you would be getting an ip address starting with 10

[Paul]

Interesting that you can register five, when the T&C's seem to say you should only have a max of three :erm:

[Matth]

3 simultaneous, using a router - if you HAVE a router, you don't register the individual PCs, and if you DON'T have a router, you can register up to 5 PCs / replacement ethernet interfaces, but only USE one.

[nffc]

3 PCs connected in T+Cs? How do they know if you're behind router / NAT / firewall?

[Chris W]

3 PCs connected in T+Cs? How do they know if you're behind router / NAT / firewall?

Very difficult to work out... but using complicated methods involving packet inspection it would be possible to find out.

[Paul]

Very difficult to work out... but using complicated methods involving packet inspection it would be possible to find out.
Not if you have a (decent) firewall correctly configured. ;)

[Chris W]

Not if you have a (decent) firewall correctly configured. ;)

true... but i am guessing that less than 0.1% of ntl's users are in this situation... ;)

[scrotnig]

Every customer I come across seems to have a Firewall that blocks them from browsing and sending emails, but lets every trojan play with their machine with gay abandon.