Your IP address has nothing to do with their upload throttling. that is set in the modem itself, by the provider end of the connection, with SNMP. Run the docsdiag program on your modem, and you'll see the cap there. Example: DocsDiag v011209 Copyright 2001 Robin Walker rdhwat_private Toshiba DOCSIS Cable Modem: HW 6.11; SW 1.7.007 Downstream channel ID = 3 Downstream channel frequency = 415750000 Hz Downstream received signal power = -1.5 dBmV Upstream channel ID = 2 Upstream channel frequency = 26096342 Hz QoS max upstream bandwidth = 192000 bps QoS max downstream bandwidth = 1500000 bps SigQu: Signal to Noise Ratio = 31.5 dB Cable modem status = Operational Upstream transmit signal power = 41.5 dBmV Date and Time = 2002-02-05,23:47:17.00+00:00 Configuration filename = IP1.bin On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 02:52:10PM -0700, Jon Zobrist wrote: > I just read the @home IP change instructions in the Hacker's Digest and an > interesting idea came to me... > > If @home uses IP addresses in parts of their bandwidth (upload) throttling, > then could you just take more IP addresses and get more bandwidth? > > Now, I don't have @home :( so I can't test it, but can anyone out there test > this? > > If so, I'd say the race is on to get @home addresses for more bandwidth.. > > Jon Zobrist > Security Consultant > Bluesun Networks, LLC > kgbat_private > 801-856-9300 > > -- /~\ The ASCII Sean Davis \ / Ribbon Campaign aka dive X Against HTML / \ Email! http://eros.endersgame.net:8000/~dive
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