You don't have to pay for service at all. For starters, you can always use someone else's MAC address, as long as they aren't on the same neighborhood loop. Si

You don't have to pay for service at all. For starters, you can always use someone else's MAC address, as long as they aren't on the same neighborhood loop. Since you can easily sniff all the MACs on your loop, you can just trade lists with someone elsewhere. Most ISPs have only one global MAC database, so locality doesn't matter. If that wasn't enough, for all the US ISPs I know of, you don't even have to have a valid subscriber MAC. You just configure your hacked modem to fetch a high-end config file (instead of "walledgarden.cm"), and set your own non-poisoned DNS. Many ISPs in Europe change their config filenames constantly to at least make you try.