[Cialug] Noob needs help.

[John Roach]

Before I got rid of mediacom, I just reverted to a linksys router and 
used the Mac address clone feature. I registered the MAC of my primary 
computer, and told the router to provide that MAC instead  of its.

Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Todd Walton<tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 9:24 AM, albus<albus at iowaconnect.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> No one as yet has told you yet, but you need the MAC of the system that
>>> works yet. Maybe you already know you need that and maybe not.
>>> Either way you will need it to set the MAC in the router to spoof back to
>>> Mediacom. Otherwise you won't have Internet until you spoof
>>> the MAC or call them to re-register the router.
>>>       
>> I've never needed my MAC address.  This is one point where I'd be on
>> the phone complaining without relent to Mediacom, if they somehow put
>> me in a situation where I had to use it just to get service.  Just
>> because *I'm* tech savvy doesn't mean everyone is.
>>
>> But like I said, I've never actually needed my MAC.
>>
>>     
>
> When I was a mediacom customer I had to call in a few times to get
> them to reset the modem to work with a change in router or etc.
> Initial computer setup was w/out a router so when I hooked up my
> router it wouldn't work. Called them and they fixed it in 1 minute.
> Then router died and switched to desktop. Call again, fixed in 1 min.
> Tried making my own router out of a linux server. Call again. Gave up
> and switched to new router. Call again.
>
> I think if you're patient and just wait overnight with the router and
> modem unplugged it works OK. I'm not usually patient enough for that
> though. Mediacom is not the only company that does it like this.
>
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