Someone had told me that when I turn my modem off and turn it back on in a couple of hours it'll get assigned to a new router, how is it possible to check what router you are on and how to test the performance?

i wouldnt believe them as far as i could throw them. each area has its own router, and your the serial number of your modem is assigned to the router in your area. thats why u cant just goto your mates house who has cable who lives in a different area, and plug your modem in. I moved house about 3 km, and my modem wouldnt work even tho i had a foxtel port in my room. had to ring up telstra and get them to activate my modem serial in the router for this area.

resilients modem from a docsis router from alexandra hills worked at my place in auchenflower when we had a motorolla ffs.

we could use both mine and his logins with it as well, go figure.

logins will work on ANY moden (on the same network), they jus goto the auth server. u can move modems around, there is no such serial number assign to routers stuff, cause thats not possible thru DHCP (as far as i know)
you can use a trace route porgrams or "tracert dce-server" in the command prompt and see the routers it goes through

so what if ur on a different router?? unless the firmware is affected then it will just act the same.

limps' modem since he cancelled his contract has been 'deactivated' by telstra, it wont work at my house, even with my login

hmm maybe it sends the serial number to the auth server, that would work, but not to the router.

also u gotta have the correct attenuatior on the end of the line or else it wont work either`

When a tech came to fix my power supply i was asking him and he said that every night around 12, the router searchs a list of modem serials and plans that they're on and hence can tell which bios to flash to your modem (which speed). Theres alot of different rumours going around, but i believe this guy, he seemed pretty switched on.

the story i herd was that it was done weekly, however there is ways to block the firmware update

Yeah, just gotta get your hands on a eeprom writer:(

K|nDreD - guess what i have????
yes a eprom writer :)