Usually you can wait ~15 minutes and it will time out as well with the cable
modem powered off/unplugged.

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 09:19:14AM -0800, John R Steinbruner wrote:
> Not sure about there, but here, they keep track of the mac address.   
> When I changed from an old 10 base T router to a brand new G Wireless  
> router at a rental place once, I had to change the Mac address of the  
> new router to match that of the old one before anything would work..
>
>
> On Jan 24, 2009, at 6:50 PM, Stan Zaske wrote:
>
>> Have any of you ever run into a situation where your router's WAN port 
>> seems to stop working but your ethernet connections among 4 PC's are 
>> fine? Then after some more investigation it seems that your cable modem 
>> will only connect one PC to the web and none of the others? The only 
>> thing I can figure is that my router is fine but Comcast has locked 
>> (possibly) my service to the MAC address of this one box and will only 
>> connect to it but none of the others. Is my thinking straight on this 
>> or can any of you come up with an alternate scenario? It seems might 
>> strange to me that I can take the ethernet cable from my Mororola cable 
>> modem and switch it from one box to another and only the one will 
>> connect. What the heck is going on?
>>
>>
>
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