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wait a min, did you say that they didn't allow you to have multiple devices which create more IP addresses in "your house"? I thought, as long as your get the devices and hook them up in your garage, they are all yours.

BTW, I thought only router can give you IP. I didn't know hub can.

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Originally Posted by stomachmonkey View Post
Cablevision in NY used to be like that when they 1st rolled out broadband. You could hook a simple hub up to your cable modem and you were good to go with as many addresses as you wanted.

They used to try and bang you an additional $25 per IP address they handed out.

The service was spotty in the early days so you'd be on the phone with them a lot and the tech would mention that I had multiple devices which was not allowed.

I'd say no I don't, he'd say I can see all the addresses that have been allocated to you.

So I'd explain to him, as I disconnected all but one device form the hub, that I was aware that they flushed their caches manually and what he was seeing was the same device in my house getting a new address after a power cycle.

He'd get the cache flushed and only see one address again.
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