I suppose that she's going to need a router, isn't she? - which does have a MAC address.You definitely need a router, as the cable modem only assigns an IP address to one MAC address.
Has anyone on the list got a Telewest broadband connection with a cable modem connected to a router?
Once you do get a router, you will need to register its MAC address with Telewest using their website, and also power down and restart the cable modem, to clear it's cache and have it assign an IP address to the router.
Probably the easiest thing these days it to buy a wireless accesspoint/broadband router combined. I've seen a Linksys one work well.
The other thing to remember is the computers will now be on a private subnet behind the router, rather than connected directly. This is good for security , but might complicate person to person messaging and some peer-to-peer stuff.
Marcus
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