Thanks for the info, but I'm not sure that's what's happening. He has Bellsouth DSL in Alabama and I have Bellsouth DSL here in Louisville. I recently bought a new router and none of the 3 computers on my network had a problem. But I will pass this info on to him and he can check it out.
Thanks for your reply. Sunday, December 20, 20098:03 PMDaniel mickelsendwmickel...@gmail.com >On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer ><harr...@bellsouth.net> 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 > _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
