Josh/Lopaka,
IIRC, I do recall that in the old, initial days of dsl that cloning
one's PC MAC addy to your chosen router was the [kludge] way to keep the
ISP from knowing that you might be diddling with the agreed TOS. For
years I cloned my main PC's MAC to my DSL router (Verizon, Bellsouth,
ATT, ZCloud).
Oddly enough, when I just fessed up to my new fiber ISP's tech support,
I was told that they don't care how many machines I use. And, please let
the router report ITS' own MAC addy, thank you very much. I have
complied. Service is wonderful. What I now consider old folklore (?fud?)
is parked. Not even sure if this share is appropriate?
What is a CPE anyway?
HTH,
Duncan
On 10/24/2010 16:21, Robert Martin Jr. wrote:
I agree although I did recently setup a good router (WRT150N w/ DDWRT) for my
sister who is using ATT and generally have never had any issues with DSL setups.
After multiple reboots of router and computer, and resetting modem and not
getting anywhere, I cloned the MAC addy and all was good. I've never needed to
do that on any other setup before (ATT, comcast, charter, etc), but it was the
only thing that fixed the issue. Thought it was worth a try ;)
lopaka
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From: J MacCraw<[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sun, October 24, 2010 10:38:03 AM
Subject: Re: [H] Anyone use Clearwire?
Assuming you are resetting the modem before changing the CPE, the modem should
accept a different MAC. I've never had situation were unplugging the modem> 60
sec did not solve the issue except where the modem was toast. Cloning is for
providers who lock to a specific CPE's MAC and in this case would be a kludge. I
too would be dubious of any one router being more compatible than another
assuming modem<->router link is just DHCP.
On 10/24/2010 6:39 AM, Robert Martin Jr. wrote:
If the computer works when directly connected to the modem, most routers have
a
setting to clone the MAC address of the computer. This will often fix
connection
problems. If that doesn't work I'm not sure whats causing your problems.
lopaka
