Initially Charter would pick up the mac address of the first device that it saw on a particular connection. It then would only recognize that device. I learned this when I tested first with my laptop and then put a Linksys router/wireless access point in and it would not work until I cloned the mac address of the laptop on the router.
Last night my router lost all of its configuration and in getting it back working it appeared that Charter was no longer requiring the cloned mac address. Your mileage may vary. -phil J. Philip Miller, Professor of Biostatistics Washington University School of Medicine Director of Biostatistics Core, Siteman Cancer Center Mail: Campus Box 8067, 660 S. Euclid Ave St. Louis, MO 63110 Physical Address: 3349 Barnard Phone: 314-362-3617, 314-362-3728 (fax) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.biostat.wustl.edu/~phil - The materials contained in this e-mail are private and confidential and are the property of the sender. If you are not the intended recipient, be advised that any unauthorized use, disclosure, copying, distribution, or the taking of any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail transmission in error, please immediately notify the sender. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cwe-lug- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Citek > Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 10:14 AM > To: Central West End Linux Users Group > Subject: Re: [cwe-lug] Need help using charter internet with linux > > > On Tuesday, Oct 12, 2004, at 11:53 US/Central, trisha wrote: > > I think that may be part of my problem too. Last night I was able to > > get it to work without the router, and I noticed the ready light was > > not > > flashing, as it had been. > > So you were able to connect to the internet using the router alone? > > > So do you have the problem with the ready light blinking a lot? > > I assume you mean on the modem. I only noticed it this morning. It > may be happening during the day, too, and I have no way of knowing, > especially if it automatically resets. I'm going to buy a spare modem > and super-simple wired firewall/router/NAT today just as a fall-back > solution. > > How does one test cable modems? That is, how can you differentiate an > intermittent problem with the cable modem from an intermittent problem > with the something further upstream (e.g. the cable service)? > > FWIW, I've never had these problems with ADSL from Valuenet. It worked > almost flawlessly from day one. There were only two times that I > remember having an issue. Once was with their mail server and another > was when their upstream provider lost connectivity. That peace of mind > was worth every penny I paid over the last year. Too bad they no > longer offer ADSL service. I guess it was just too much of a headache > for them. > > Regards, > - Robert > http://www.cwelug.org/downloads > Help others get OpenSource. Distribute FLOSS for > Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent > > _______________________________________________ > CWE-LUG mailing list > http://www.cwelug.org/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.firepipe.net/listinfo/cwe-lug _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list http://www.cwelug.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.firepipe.net/listinfo/cwe-lug
