Stealing cable internet isn’t like stealing cable. Charter maintains a list of active and inactive MAC addresses which it manages centrally.

If you took a live MAC address, it would conflict with the real device and cause a whole bunch of very noticeable errors that basically tells the admins “HEY! ONE OF THESE TWO MODEMS IS TRYING TO STEAL INTERNET!” along side your name, address, phone number, and etc. This would probably result in getting V& or billed, since Charter is a bag of male reproductive organs like that.

If you took a dead address, the system would just reject it outright thus making it useless to you.

Now that I’ve explained just why this contest is impossible to fulfill as you intended, I’d like to claim that BP so I can get the next pbuming thread going.