$Bill wrote:
David H. Lipman wrote:
From: "B.M. Wright" <bmwright@xmission.xmission.com
|
| This really doesn't matter. The cable into the house has plenty
| of bandwidth, more than you'll get out of a single connection. It's
| possible to hook two different modems up to common cabling in a single
| household.
|
| All the cable company cares about is that they recognize the MAC
| address of the modem, it's possible to move it to a completely
different
| house serviced by the same company and get service. This is without
| changing your "address" as far as they know. I've take a modem to a
| location several miles away in the same city, plugged it on a cable
from
| the same provider and fired it up, no problems, as long as there are no
| signal/quality issues on the cabling.
|
| So, why not order service at your address and your neighbor's
| then stick both modems in one house if they need to be located
together?
Maybe, but that's fraud.
Doesn't sound like fraud to me - you're paying for two services and
getting two. If you used the neighbor's name, there could be some
sort of an issue, but otherwise I don't see it.
If it's not fraud, then why not be open about it, instead of using some
deceptive move like registering the service at a different address?
This is no different than using a front man to allow a felon to get a liquor
license. The argument that "it's a bar, and it has a license" is irrelevant
if that license was obtained by deception. That's fraud. Yes, in this case
two services are being received, and two are being paid for, but there was
the same deception involved. It's obviously fraud.
The "ends" are not the only issue. The "means" are germane. Reaching the
desired ends by deceptive means is fraud.
Do it the right way, or don't do it.
--
Warren H.
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