Installing NTL Broadband Without Using The CD

We now have NTL Broadband. They came, they installed it, they went away to get more cable, they came back, they connected it.

They were polite, on time, and quick.

They gave me the cables, told me to use the CD on the computer, and went away.

And I ignored them.

I plugged in the router, connected to it, and tried to find the magic address where you register your PIN number and everything, which – until you register – is the only site you are able to access at all.

This magic address which took me several hours to find is:

autoreg.autoregister.net/

This guide to installing NTL under Linux is also really helpful.

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  1. Paul
    15:36 on March 25th, 2004

    Oh dear, I think the world is due to end pretty damn soon. :)

    It’s a bit like an earthquake. The fact that nothing went wrong now simply means that something much bigger is going to happen in a few months time.

  2. Barry
    17:51 on March 25th, 2004

    Personally I find it *much* easier to just spoof the MAC address of my laptop to match the MAC address of the red interface of the firewall and register normally.

    Configure the IPCop box and (usually) voila, quick connecting next time you reboot the box with the firewall attached.

    YMMV, natch ;)

  3. Rosemary
    10:15 on March 26th, 2004

    Gah. I wish we’d known about those.

    We plugged the modem into a windows box, installed the CD, registered, then spent several hours with the modem plugged into the firewall trying to make the damn thing work…