I have TW cable. If I get a cable box (scientific atlanta 3250) from a friend and hook it up will it work? Also, will I get in trouble for using it?
Any help will be welcomed.
no it wont work, thanx
the cable box knows which router its connected to in the neighborhood, so moving it from one router to another will flag the box.
if you live on the same street/neighborhood it MAY work,
No, you would need to take it into a local office and have them add it. You could call, but if it’s on somebody else’s account they won’t do it over the phone.
actually, it does work. The kid living upstairs from me did it. He took the box from his parents house. The box was DEFINTELY not on the bill, I know this because my father pays the bill(included in rent). It worked the entire time he lived there.
where did his parents live?
TW boxes work like a standard network
all the boxes have a MAC address which registers itself with a router… if your box reports to the wrong router which it should be assosicated with (the address on the bill) it throws up a flag, or its supposed to
I did this all through college. Parents paid for the full shot with all the movie channels and lived in Amherst. I had it on campus at Canisius in Buffalo. They would deactivate the box after 30 days. I would have to bring it home and switch it with another one, and it would be back on within a few hours.
Incorrect, it has nothing to do with the router. Once you first boot up and get the RF IP Address the DNCS in the headend will remember that and what hub you are on. If you move to where you are a different hub the DNCS will just say “I don’t know you and piss off” if you are on the same hub though it will work.
Now another thing to note this boxes RF Mac Address is bound to a specific account in the billing system. So if you have different packages than your parents it will only have what they have access too.
Another point when I say hub I am referring to QAM group hubs in the headend and local area distribution headends.
DNCS is not a router (Digital Network Control Server) … it works in conjunction with a cable billing system (CSG or iKOMS) to control access.
Not sure how it would work since back in the adelphia days buffalo area and amherst where definitely different hubs. Strange…
The kid that did it upstairs had parents that lived quite far away, out into the sticks a bit I beleive.
It was nice being able to watch entourage last summer 