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Unlock UPC Cisco EPC3925 to use with other Network

  • 26-01-2013 11:15AM
    #1
    samsuree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32 ✭


    Hi,

    How to unlock UPC Cisco EPC3925 to use the router with other service providers. Please let me know if any one has experimented it.

    Thanks
    Suresh A
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  • #2
    GerardKeating
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,067 ✭✭✭GerardKeating


    samsuree wrote: »
    Hi,

    How to unlock UPC Cisco EPC3925 to use the router with other service providers. Please let me know if any one has experimented it.

    Thanks
    Suresh A

    But it's a cable modem?


  • #3
    elderlemon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,014 ✭✭✭elderlemon


    Er. its not your modem. It belongs to UPC and you are only renting it.
    samsuree wrote: »
    Hi,

    How to unlock UPC Cisco EPC3925 to use the router with other service providers. Please let me know if any one has experimented it.

    Thanks
    Suresh A


  • #4
    samsuree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32 ✭samsuree


    elderlemon wrote: »
    Er. its not your modem. It belongs to UPC and you are only renting it.


    Is there any way to unlock the same to use with other network?


  • #5
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,160 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    samsuree wrote: »
    Is there any way to unlock the same to use with other network?

    What other network?


  • #6
    samsuree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32 ✭samsuree


    Karsini wrote: »
    What other network?
    Any thing... like a normal router which i can use with any service provider...


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  • #7
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,160 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    samsuree wrote: »
    Any thing... like a normal router which i can use with any service provider...

    Simple answer - you can't. The UPC modem is a DOCSIS cable modem/router, not an ADSL modem/router. Different technologies, one runs on television cable, the other on telephone lines.


  • #8
    samsuree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32 ✭samsuree


    Karsini wrote: »
    Simple answer - you can't. The UPC modem is a DOCSIS cable modem/router, not an ADSL modem/router. Different technologies, one runs on television cable, the other on telephone lines.
    Oh okay... so no way to use with other network...


  • #9
    dub45
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 12,456 Mod ✭✭✭✭dub45


    Ironically enough lots of users would be happy enough not to have to use it at all never mind use it with another network:)


  • #10
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,160 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    samsuree wrote: »
    Oh okay... so no way to use with other network...

    You may be able to use it on Digiweb Metro or Permanet if you could convince them to provision it for you, but chances are they wouldn't. Impossible to get it working on Eircom/UTV/Vodafone etc.


  • #11
    zenno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭zenno


    The Cisco router upgrade from UPC I got a few months ago is garbage. The router has no antenna and using the laptop in the kitchen which is only 30 feet away gets me 1 bar lol atrocious routers in every sense of the word.


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  • #12
    dreamers75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,558 ✭✭✭✭dreamers75


    Can you use your own router with UPC?


  • #13
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,160 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    dreamers75 wrote: »
    Can you use your own router with UPC?

    No, on residential accounts they'll only provision routers that they've provided themselves. Business accounts can.


  • #14
    samsuree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32 ✭samsuree


    dreamers75 wrote: »
    Can you use your own router with UPC?
    I am not sure though i havent tried it....


  • #15
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,160 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The issue here is that DOCSIS uses the MAC address of the modem for account authorisation and to determine what config file to send to the modem. On UPC, if an unregistered modem is connected to the network, it's sent the cm_unknown.bin file which restricts access to the internet. UPC have to add the MAC address of the modem to your account so the modem will be sent the correct file, and they won't do it on a residential connection.


  • #16
    CSSE09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 519 ✭✭✭CSSE09


    dreamers75 wrote: »
    Can you use your own router with UPC?

    Router yes modem no. I got an epc3925 off UPC the other day, logged in to the modem and switched it to bridge mode, connected my own router, job done.


  • #17
    samsuree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32 ✭samsuree


    Karsini wrote: »
    The issue here is that DOCSIS uses the MAC address of the modem for account authorisation and to determine what config file to send to the modem. On UPC, if an unregistered modem is connected to the network, it's sent the cm_unknown.bin file which restricts access to the internet. UPC have to add the MAC address of the modem to your account so the modem will be sent the correct file, and they won't do it on a residential connection.
    Oh okay great.. thanks for the information. I would like to know how to break the same, if any one has done that. For example, there are ways to break locked mobiles... in similar way to that are there any ways we can do the same for this as well?


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