Originally Posted by Lips2001Ad
Hi there thank you all for your input on the situation. Yes looking for a new inexpensive router was my first port of call but the cheapest one I could find was not all that good. The one I got for free off my brother is a very nice very expensive net gear that I wish to keep. Anyway when I asked my isp about If I buy a modem can I use it they catagoricly said No !!! I wouldnt mind but I have a lot of freinds and relatives who have the same service from the same isp and they all got the motorolla surfboards as standard - so why is it so much trouble to just swap mine for me? They said they would only change my modem if it faulty and then there is no certainty of getting a moto modem. Infact my brother has sugested vandalising the Webstar by putting some high voltage into the 9v power conector !!! and I think that might be a bit extreme. Can somebody explain why using another modem with my own mac address and set to my speed cap limits is in breech of my terms of service? surley its like if my tv breaks I buy a new one, because I am still using it with my digital tv subscription and not using the broken one it shouldnt make a differance? I know all to well that uncapping is but that is not what I want to do - I mean if 10M isnt enuogh then theres something really wrong !!!!!