[Lvlug] Clear Modems 4 Sale

[Michael Gossett]

No, Clear is losing so much money they will not let you create a new account
with a previously owned modem because they lose out on two things.

1) You can go month to month and not have to sign a contract and pay the
$5/mo fee.

2) New hardware sales

If you have an existing account you CAN add a previously owned modem to it,
just not create a new account with it :)

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Tom Garland <tom.garland at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 07/30/2010 01:11 PM, Rich Roehm wrote:
> > Cox has their own silly thing with cablemodems. Cox's process is that
> > the owner has to call and 'release' the modem from their account so it
> > can be assigned to a new\other account in the future. If you wind up
> > with spare\friend's cablemodem you'll need them to remove it first.
> > Maybe Clear has a similar process.
> >
> >
> > Rich.
> >
> I know because of the way COX establishes authorization.
> I had to do it yesterday. What you  have to do is associate
> the MAC address of the PC you will be using with the modem
> you are using via the Internet cable connection. Of course
> you can only do it when you are running a winblows OS
> on your PC. That way if you want to use another computer
> with your COX modem  you have to do the same thing with
> the new PC to get its MAC address and then COX charges
> you for multiple PCs using their Internet access every month.
>
> Clear registers the 4G modem MAC address. When I added
> a second modem I just told them the MAC address and I had
> access throughout the valley. I think it would probably work
> anywhere in the U.S. with Clear reception. The modem
> is a full blown router that you have all sorts of control
> over. The COX modem is controlled via the coax cable.
>
> Of course many years ago I used to route all of my other
> Internet access through the PC with the registered MAC
> address and later I used just a router.
>
> Cloning works, aren't programmable routers great!  ;-)
>
> Tom
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