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? >> >> > > > -- > JRS steinie**[email protected] > Please remove **X** to reply... > > Facts do not cease to exist just > because they are ignored. -- Bryan G. Seitz
