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Author anyone know if these are illegal?
ljames555
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http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/EUROVOX-MAX-V3-CABLE-BOX-PLUG-PLAY-BRAND-NEW-BOXED_W0QQitemZ160075816925QQihZ006QQcategoryZ39804QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

mate said a work mate of his has one and connects through cable modem and he gets all premiership matches and alot of other stuff for free.
anyone help ?
John
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It will be illegal yes.
marklaruk
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d box iswhat u want
Melville
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They are illegal to connect, but not illegal to own Not that I have looked into it for any particular reason
marklaruk
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not sure about the one u linked to but with a dbox u get all the cable channels free... will prob be same! but £200 is alot
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is there anyway for them to catch you?

Anyone own one?
abdus
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which channels you get on these? and you would need a dish?
marklaruk
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it comes straight through your cable line gets everything that cable has... porn, movies, music ... pretty much everything

if u have cable into your house then ur game

[Edited on 20-01-2007 by marklaruk]
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nokia d box in debug mode, with neutrino installed.

make sure theres no dead pixels on the lil screen

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NOKIA-DBOX-D-BOX-2-DEBUG-MODE-NEUTRINO-UK_W0QQitemZ330078127751QQihZ014QQcategoryZ39804QQtcZphotoQQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[Edited on 20-01-2007 by marklaruk]
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quote:
Originally posted by Bart
is there anyway for them to catch you?

Anyone own one?


pretty easy to be honest, especially as it's a two-way network with cable unlike sky. But not saying that you couldn't get away with it for a months or so, but they will catch you when they do checks, more so if you don't have a subscription. Though im curious to know how the boxes work, as the internal addresses have to be assigned to be used on the network (similar to mac addresses of a cable modem etc)
ljames555
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so it wouldnt be worth the risk of being caught ?
Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by ljames555
so it wouldnt be worth the risk of being caught ?


if you get caught you WILL be banned from the services, both NTL and Telewest (as they are the same compnay now). It's possible that they could take it further, fine, court etc

Personally i don't think it's worth it, certainly if you don't plan to have a subscription with them. The odds of getting caught would be slightly lower if you took out there basic package and paid that every month.
But personally, i would rather rip off sky, a lot easier to get away with and they have no way of checking what channels you are receiving unlike cable
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but some ntl boxes don't send back the signal...

and yes, having the base pack definitely helps
Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by abdus
but some ntl boxes don't send back the signal...

and yes, having the base pack definitely helps


eh?
NTL can poll the boxes when ever they want and they can get any bit of data about the box also, like what channel you're currently watching, firmware versions etc.
abdus
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quote:
Originally posted by Dom
quote:
Originally posted by abdus
but some ntl boxes don't send back the signal...

and yes, having the base pack definitely helps


eh?
NTL can poll the boxes when ever they want and they can get any bit of data about the box also, like what channel you're currently watching, firmware versions etc.


this will only happen IF the box is sending back the signal though
Dom
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i dont know enough about the dodgy boxes, but i know that NTL Pace and Samsung boxes will return data when queried.
Im guessing that the dodgy boxes don't return anything, which would seem a little silly or work on the basis of pretending to be in engineers mode/access....

edit - have a look over at Digital Spy forums, it's the only place that these can be discussed where ntl engineers float about.

[Edited on 21-01-2007 by Dom]
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quote:
Originally posted by Dom
quote:
Originally posted by Bart
is there anyway for them to catch you?

Anyone own one?


pretty easy to be honest, especially as it's a two-way network with cable unlike sky. But not saying that you couldn't get away with it for a months or so, but they will catch you when they do checks, more so if you don't have a subscription. Though im curious to know how the boxes work, as the internal addresses have to be assigned to be used on the network (similar to mac addresses of a cable modem etc)



the boxes such as the dbox don't have talkback on them so they don't know they are there (you can get the cable boxes like this aswell), the only way they can check is my checking the cable box in ur street to see if there is any activity on the line... so if u have a cable modem anyway they will expect to see activity! if u don't have anything used by ur cable line then u could be caught.
Dom
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fair enough, but how to they connect to the network? as from what i remember, stbs have to activated from the head end?

I take it that the dboxes work on both bromley and langey areas of the NTL network?

Anywhere i can get more info about running a dbox on the ntl network (u2u me if you need be)?

marklaruk
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aslong as u have an ntl cable going into your house you can get it.

should work whever cable is i would imagine.

not sure where u find more info have a look around google
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yes, it works on any cable. A friend works for NTL and actually told me that they will never know if you are using it. No signal is returned. One of them I saw had £38,000 credit on it
LeeM
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whats that nokia dbox? does that work on telewest? i have telewest broadband :S is that the one that doesnt comunicate with the company?
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they dont send a signal back, £100 here
abdus
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what is £100?
Doug
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How can you get the sky channels for free then?

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