Buying a second cable modem instead of renting

acperience7 · Apr 8, 2008

I called my ISP a few days ago, and asked them how much it would be to rent a second modem. I was shocked to find out they want to charge full subscription price (which actually makes sense). I checked newegg for a modem, and I was thinking of buying one and hooking it up to my cable, so I wouldn't have to pay the extra subscription fee. Is that illegal, or have a just found a good loop-hole?

JrRacinFan · Apr 8, 2008

And how do you plan on using this second modem?

I mean in theory, you wouldn't be able to use it without registering it's MAC address to your ISP, then they would charge you a second subscription fee anyway.

acperience7 · Apr 8, 2008

JrRacinFan said:
And how do you plan on using this second modem?

I mean in theory, you wouldn't be able to use it without registering it's MAC address to your ISP, then they would charge you a second subscription fee anyway.

I was just going to use it for my PS3. I didn't want to get a router and have to muck around with all that port access stuff.

Ripper3 · Apr 8, 2008

It's the easiest and cheapest way, getting a router. Plus, as long as it's got UPnP (Universal Plug'n'Play), it should configure ports automagically, or mine does anyway.

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Motherboard	Gigabyte X570 Asrock X570 Taichi
Cooling	2x LL140, 4x LL120 / bequiet! Dark Rock 4
Memory	32GB Corsair Vengence RGB DDR4 (3600 Mhz)
Video Card(s)	Red Devil 5700XT
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Display(s)	Samsung C32H711
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Buying a second cable modem instead of renting

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