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Hiroki 16-03-2010 17:40

Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
 
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Originally Posted by *sloman* (Post 34981262)
Wasnt that done a few months back with encrypted configs?

Nope. Well if you look on other forums you can see that they are still in use

Sirius 16-03-2010 17:58

Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
 
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Originally Posted by Hiroki (Post 34981366)
Nope. Well if you look on other forums you can see that they are still in use

But no way near as many. ;)

Hiroki 16-03-2010 20:41

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Originally Posted by Sirius (Post 34981376)
But no way near as many. ;)

Haha that's a fair point. ;)

Tony. 16-03-2010 20:45

Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
 
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Originally Posted by Hiroki (Post 34981471)
Haha that's a fair point. ;)

Perhaps once N3 has rolled out they will look at killing the dodgy Modems

Sirius 16-03-2010 21:11

Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
 
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Originally Posted by Tony. (Post 34981475)
Perhaps once N3 has rolled out they will look at killing the dodgy Modems


I hope so

tvtimes 16-03-2010 21:11

Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
 
Lets hope. Next door have four of them.

*sloman* 17-03-2010 21:13

Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
 
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Originally Posted by tvtimes (Post 34981494)
Lets hope. Next door have four of them.

4!!!!!!!

sugar, i wouldn't like to live on the same street as that person no bandwidth!

Ben B 17-03-2010 21:15

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

*sloman* 18-03-2010 20:17

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

Russ 19-03-2010 17:44

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?

Kymmy 19-03-2010 18:00

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[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..

Ben B 19-03-2010 18:00

Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
 
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Originally Posted by Russ (Post 34983209)
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?

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. :)

ahardie 19-03-2010 18:01

Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
 
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Originally Posted by Russ (Post 34983209)
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?

Definitely talking bobbins. ;)

tvtimes 19-03-2010 18:48

Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
 
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Originally Posted by *sloman* (Post 34982054)
4!!!!!!!

sugar, i wouldn't like to live on the same street as that person no bandwidth!

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.:mad:

Sirius 19-03-2010 19:05

Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
 
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Originally Posted by ahardie (Post 34983227)
Definitely talking bobbins. ;)

agreed ;)


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