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> How did you determine that AT&T sent the firmware update? I assumed it was AT&T sending it as part of network maintenance/upgrades. I guess I can't conclude fully that it was them, but I do know that only the coax interface of the modem listens for such things. > What does this mean for people who buy their modems at BestBuy and > don't want auto updates? You really don't have a choice, the updates are what controls the speeds of the modems and the protocol version/method by which they connect to AT&T's equipment, and you agree to letting AT&T administer them as part of your user agreement. I read a couple stories recently about people taking it upon themselves to "unlock" their modems for 10 Mbps each way (though parts of the stories seemed rather fishy, like how they were able to upload firmware when the ethernet side of the device doesn't listen for transfers), but when they were discovered they were removed from their cable providers for the distant future. AT&T wasn't very forthcoming on what this latest update accomplished, so I figured it was just a bug in my particuler modem or bad code on their part that made it not work correctly with an already-running modem. Whatever, no real loss. -b
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