On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer <[email protected] > wrote:
> My son, who lives in Alabama, is having router woes with his Linksys > Router and his PC (running Vista). > > If he connects his dsl modem to his pc he can get on the internet. But > when he connects his dsl modem to his router, he cannot connect to the > internet even though his computer says he is connected to the wireless > network. > > Any suggestions? > Many of these systems assign access based on the hardware number, or MAC, of the device that's connected and they only have one MAC on the system for you at one time. The MAC of the PC is probably registered with the ISP and not the MAC of the router. He can fix this a couple of different ways: (1) Get the MAC of the router and have it registered as the device with the ISP's server. The MAC is usually written somewhere on the outside of the router. It will look something like 00:23:10:34:d6:78. Or, he can log into the router and look on its info page. (2) Most routers have the ability to impersonate another device. This is often called "spoofing" in the router setup. He can get the MAC number of his PC and tell the router to spoof the PC. This will fool the ISP's server that it's talking to the PC and it will give the correct credentials to the router. That's what I do with my Charter cable connection. -dan
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