Cable modem upstream hack

[SysOpt]

One of SysOpt's forum users has a program on to remove the upstream limit on cable modems. If anyone out there wants to test it I'd be interested in knowing if it works on different systems. But, if the user could post the app to a NORMAL LEGAL site that would be appreciated.

Scott

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[bdog]

If someone wants to send it to me, or email me the link to it, I will host the file at www.gesc.ttu.edu/pub (http://www.gesc.ttu.edu/pub)

[wyvrn]

I will host it to if you send me the link.

[jad1097]

bdog
CYM
The file name is cmsuv10.exe.

Oh you have to click on warez to get the file. The name of the download from their site is "cable modem speed uncapper" you will have to deal with a few popup windows. I have not seen any adult content here either.



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[bdog]

Thanks Jad. The file is up. I renamed it to cablemodem.exe. I don't have a cable modem, so I don't know if it works or not. Cable modems should be available here in May. I cant wait.

[grandslammer]

Question here, what is default limit on cable modem upstream? I'm "assuming" (hate that word, don't you?) that will increasespeeds when I'm uploading files to my site, etc.

Like more info on this if available.

Thanks

Mike

[Kookstick]

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I would love to use any program to speed up my cable since it seems to be slowing more and more. Can someone please Explain this to me first though, when you install it it brings up a box that has three options- Mac address of cablemodem, new gateway and own ip address.Am I supposed to change these settings or use the ones it is setting because own ip address is not the address I currently have, I just don't want to set it up wrong or i'll never get it back the way it was. Thanks http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

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[jad1097]

There is a readme file included, at least there should be, that will explain this. The way I found my Mac address was I disabled my firewall and went here and did the sheilds up test http://grc.com/default.htm
THen put in your IP and gateway.

ALso this only increases your upload speeds. to increase your download speeds go here http://www.speedguide.net/

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[nuclear]

Hey there guys!!!!!!! Do any of you know who i am?? well im the guy that wrote that program and i run weedwarez.com (thanks to whoever said i had some cool flash). Well i just thought id join this conversation here so if you have any questions im open!

[jad1097]

I do have a question.
How much does it increase the upload speed? I have yet to use it yet so I am not sure. And does it work with all cable modems/providers?

[nuclear]

well so far........it didnt work for me on my com21 modem with charter. but the people i had test it for me said it worked great for them using tetryan modems (something like that, im not sure if thats how you spell it). it allows the upstream to be as much as you can possibly sqeeze into the server but dont upload alot of stuff because you could get cuaght by your ISP if you over do it!

[grandslammer]

hmmmmmmmm I'm using com21 modem on charter.net also.

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[jad1097]

I am not sure it helped me as my upload speed was 125kbps and download speed was 1800kbps. This was with uploading and downloading a five MB file from geocities.
According to Net Medic my router is haveing problems right now so that may be the problem. I will also double check the Mac address and IP settings to be sure I got them right.

BTW I use @home

[SysOpt]

jad1097: Do you have a Terayon modem?

bigslammer: Haven't been lately because I've been hoping our news editor (Mark) can set it up on a high speed line but he hasn't been able to yet.

[jad1097]

No it is a Motorola CyberSurfer Wave modem.

[bigslammer]

cool, scott just let us know when one might be up again. I'm sure a lot of people would be interested if not for the lag. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[SysOpt]

Will do.. Unfortunately I wasn't able to set it up in our San Francisco office. EarthWeb doesn't seem to understand that most the people here work in IT jobs by day and like to unwind with some quality gaming. Some of the execs think that gaming is for little kids I guess. Don't get me wrong, I believe in EarthWeb and the company's direction, but I do believe that this particular attitude could be different.

[nuclear]

and guys another thing.......USE THE MAC ADDRESS FOR YOUR MODEM NOT YOUR ETHERNET CARD!!! that is the common mistake most of you are probably having is your using the mac address for your ethernet card. dont do that! look on the bottom of your cable modem and it should be there. it is a 12 digit string and it should be labeled as mac. i hope this helps you guys! and someone email me if they get it to work!!!

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[bigslammer]

hey scott are you guys still playing UT at 8:00 these days. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[jad1097]

I knew about this but decided not to post it because of where it is.I have yet to try it though.

[jad1097]

Thankyou for making that clear. I did not know there was a Mac address for the modem as well.
Nope just checked and there is no Mac address there? I have a serial #8 digit and a 9 digit PC: code, but no Mac address.

How could I find this? Maybe it is labled on the inside? My modem is descibed above.

I guess I am SOL cause on the @home paper I have a space for the Mac address but there is none. Any way to find this out?

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[nuclear]

look in the manuals BUT if all else fails......and your brave enough..........crack open the modem and look on the inside for it, it could be in there. if thats not the case, call your cable provider and ask them how to find it. or just ask the company that made it!

[nuclear]

if any of you guys have any questions to ask feel free to contact me on icq or aim

my icq uin is 15931171
my aol screen name is Goldenhack

thanks

[Bleep]

NECLEAR:
Went over and looked at your site and came out of there with a problem with my machine. Everytime a popup window comes up it loades your site several times in the popup. Is this one of those great features on WAREZ sites??? Help me out here. Well I see now it is not just the popup that does this whenever a new window open it happens I cant even look at the threads here at sysopt.
Second edit: Now any address I put in the address bar on my browser takes it to your site where it is overlayed 3 or 4 times I now cannot get to any site.
Bleep

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[nuclear]

Bleep:
it seems to me that the problem you are having isnt my page but your computer or browser itself. it doesnt happen to me or any other people that go to my page because i get PLENTY and i mean PLENTY of email every day coming from my page and this has to be the first like this i have ever heard! ill look and see what i can do though.

[BBA]

Bleep...Nuclear's site is fine.

I tried the hack...10x upload rate improvement!

Dude this rocks! I guess now I have to see how Mediaone handles static IP's.

[BBA]

BTW: I do have a LanCity modem...which is what the app is based on.

[OuTpaTienT]

Well ****! I too have a CyberSurfer Wave.

Anyone know of any hacks in the works for other modems besides this Bay City Rollers Modem,....or whatever it's called.

[nuclear]

hey guys. glad i could be of help to those of you that have lan city modems. im stuck with a com21 and right now im working on compatibility with more modems and ISP's but it takes time believe me! it took me about a month or so to write that for just that one modem. glad i could help those of you that got the improvements. and if you can.......get a program that measures your upload speed and post a screenshot of the chart here and prove to everyone it works thanks!

Fatal Eclipse

[neo_otyugh]

i have a toshiba pcx1000 with roadrunner and tried the prog, made no difference that i could tell...i tested by uploading to my webspace at my job, and there was no increase...oh well...let us know if the prog is updated to work with other modems...thanks

[nuclear]

for now its only worked on lancity modems

[jad1097]

I will keep an eye on your site. I am more than willing to try anything that may work.

[Paco Skiinoff]

I have the same kind of Cable Modem as you jad1097, Motorola Cybersurfer. I called my ISP and they were either unwilling to give it to me or they actually don't know themselves the mac adress. In any case, going to my ISP for this information was useless. I see in your post "your willing to try just about anything". Well?????


Open yours up dude and let us know if you find the mac adress on the inside. Boldly go where no man has gone before. Good luck should you choose to take this mission. This post will now self destruct in 5 seconds. LOL http://www.sysopt.com/forum/biggrin.gif

Let me know if find anything.

THX

PACO_SKIINOFF

[OuTpaTienT]

Uh, why can't you just run IP Config to get the MAC address? Run this program:

C:\WINDOWS\WINIPCFG.EXE

The Adapter Address is the MAC address. At least to my understanding.

And it's a hardware, unchangable value. Every piece of hardware that has a MAC address (modems, NICs, etc.) has a unique address. And they never change.

[jad1097]

Nuclear wrote
and guys another thing.......USE THE MAC ADDRESS FOR YOUR MODEM NOT YOUR ETHERNET CARD!!! that is the common mistake most of you are probably having is your using the mac address for your ethernet card. dont do that!

I would think he knows since he wrote the program.

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[OuTpaTienT]

Alright. No need to be snotty about it.

Geeeez.

[jad1097]

I just figured you may have missed it.

[nuclear]

Hey this is nuclear again. yes the ethernet and modem have different mac addresses. dont bother calling your isp because EVERY modem has a different mac. as you know they are all unique so the isp wouldnt know where to start!

remeber guys im open on icq (15931171) or aol instant messanger (Goldenhack) if you have any questions

[michael55123]

I had a very good idea wich may not be practical. The RCA modems seem to be almost liek lancity though it doesnt work on them i ahev oen and the mac adress is stamped right on the back and almsot everoyne i knwo or have tlkaed to ahs the rca dcm 105 or rca dcm 205 is it a possibitity that cyou could write one for a rca series modem with is almost standard on @home systems?

[jad1097]

I would not say that is the stardard for @home systems since many @home users also have the Motorola CyberSurfer Wave modem.

[michael55123]

That true enough but most areas that @home is now giving access to the @home netwrok in are using rca's although about 30-40% are motorola

[OuTpaTienT]

I vote for the Motorola Cybersurfer Wave.

Definitely more people with the Cybersurfer.

[SoopaStar]

I am on @home serivce in the st. louis area and i have an RCA modem...i think its the 105 (white, sits verticle...very art deco hehe http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif )
Paul

[michael55123]

Paul you do got the 105 i got the 205 in our area they normally give 105's the 205 sync's slight diff colors black and lights are in diff configs. same modem doesnt ahve @home stampred on ti thats all

[nuclear]

guys all i can do is write updates as i get time. im jsut 17 and i still goto school, im jsut a senior in high school! plus i ahve to keep my webpage up and go out with freinds and stuff. i jsut do computer stuff for fun but if this product get REALLY BIG then i might worry about it more. im on a com21 modem and i ahvent even bother trying to write a patch for my modem so you see, i really dont have alot of free time on my hands sorry! all i can do for now is answer a few questions here and there until school is out then ill have some time on my hands

[lec169]

if anyone has a another copy of that modem program, will appreaciate it greatly.


Lec

[jad1097]

I took the cybersufer apart and could not find a Mac Address.

Any ideas?

[BBA]

Dude...you took it apart? Just for this?

I would think NEO trace could help...maybe, but I know you can find software to sniff every component in route from your PC.

[michael55123]

Dude no need to take apart it doesnt even work with the cybersuer yet just like lancity modems i do believe so dont even bother nuclear doesnt ahve time to wirhgt patches for them all so maybe if someone else could dis asseble it looka t the code and see whats going on maybe write on for a rca dcm 105-205 or a cybercefer or anything but nuclear doesnt ahve time he said he will write aspa but he goes to school to so why doesnt somsone else try?

[BBA]

Hey nuclear...

You should edit your post's and remove your icq number if you dont want to waste time to talk about the cable hack.

I took your response as insulting, thank you.

[kenshell]

This kid is a fake. This program was made by "DoDO_DeViL" who called it F**kUPC

[jad1097]

I tied NEO trace with no luck in finding it out. If you have any ideas please let me know BBA, thanks.

The reason I took it apart was I wanted to know if the Mac Address was listed inside of it! I understand the program does not work with this modem but I am a curios person and I wanted to know. That is just how I am. I have fixed my own stereos, computers, tv's, amps etc.. Built computers for myself and friends. If I could wire PLC's, motor controls, relays, Main distrubution panels, Fire alarm sytems, bugular alarms etc.. What is the big deal. So I think taking apart a simple cable modem is no big deal.

[SysOpt]

I just hope it doesn't install Back Orifice or some other trojan ;(

[BBA]

Well, OptOut says it does not have any of the aureate ones.

Netwatcher shows nothing. Netstat shows nothing.

Nav2K shows nothing.

[MadMatt]

How about an ADSL hack?

My provider is PacBell. They say upstream is limited to 128Kbps because of voltage restrictions, but my DSL modem is capable of 1.5Mbps up. I'm thinking maybe they're just being chinsy (They are the MASTERS of charging you for every little thing). IP addresses are dynamic (static IP costs extra, of course), so they can't be worried about users hosting web sites.

Supposedly, bandwidth settings are set by the DHCP server and linked to your NIC's MAC address. Also, accounts are linked to the MAC address, so changing it results in failed authentication.

Any Ideas?

[BBA]

Get this...so this guy nuclear, goes by "fatal eclipse" on icq, after blowing me off, has the nads to iocq me and ask for some iso's

ROTFLMAO!!!!


What an idiot!

Buwahahahahaha!!!

Yea, like that'll happen, hehehehe

BTW: the program quit working anyway, now I'm back to 60K/sec uploads...bummer

[Gutter Ball]

Yeah, none of those hacks for my cable modem worked :/ They seem to SLOW my modem down. I'm with @home and I have a Samsung modem. Guess I'm stuck with my varying speeds (6.0 - 200kps) http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[netsurfer]

lol, gullability at it's finest! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Anyway, I found it too... though the instructions were in German, and there was a webpage with a ton of screenshots (in the zip).

Like someone else in this thread, I'm on a Toshiba PCX1000 and although it has a 10mbps upstream rating and 30mbps downstream... i'll never come close to either. Based on a cable modem comparison at http://www.cabledatacomnews.com/cmpc/ . The Toshiba lagged far behind in uploads, which were very similar to mine. I get 30kb/sec max on uploads even to my ISP or someone else on MediaOne RoadRunner. Pretty lame. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif
And my downstream isn't as high as some @home users. Max I've ever had sustained was 180kb/sec from a 30ping server with RedHat 6 ISO. Took me 1 hour for that 650 meg file. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[neo_otyugh]

i have been able to hit over 300K/s sustained downlaods at the best with roadrunner and the toshiba modem, and the best upload i have hit was about 150K/s...but those instances are rare...usually i do between 20-80K/s up and in the 20-150K/s down...

[SoopaStar]

FOLKS!!! DO NOT USE THIS PROGRAM!!!! It caused me MANY MANY headaches (and many @home people headaches!
Heres the deal, I was having computer problems..random lockups etc. I reinstalled my OS and some other software, then discoverd a bad stick of memory.
However, after reinstalling win98, I no longer could use my @home service on this machine! Wierd? yeah.
So, I bought a new harddrive (see the pc steals and deals and the staples deal), installed windows 2000 instead, used a 10/100 3com nic and thought all my worries were over. WRONG! I could ping myself, but not anywhere else, could not surf etc. However, I COULD see the internal network. I even flashed my bios and reset it with the jumpers! Somehow, this software screwed with something OUTSIDE of WINDOWS and not even on my cablemodem! Its the gateway thing that the program screws with.
now, something I also noticed when i was trying to remove this piece of software. In the registry under
hkey_current_user\software\vb and vba program settings\ there is an entry that lists the gateway, called ****UPC...dunno what it is, but its from that cable modem program and i don't like the sound of it myself.
Be warned. You will have problems. I have to keep using this program (w/o any special results) to keep my machine online.

Paul C.

[drojman]

Lame! I have been following this thread, I don't even have a cable modem, but we are supposed to get them in July. I am on a good ole 56k, which I use bonded to a 33.6 modem for a speed of 79k (thats as fast as they'll hook up).
I get about 6k downloads. Uploads even slower. After following this post, I think when I get my cable modem, i am gonna just enjoy the speed. It's gonna seem like race driving compared to my pedal car right now anyway! I am glad everyone is posting their results though.