If you need to reset this router back to defaults, power it down, and 
then push in the reset button and hold for 30 seconds..

I think this can also be accomplished va the admin GUI as well

JFeole
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Ben Scott wrote:
> On 9/17/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   
>>> 4. Wait 15 minutes.  (Yes, that long.  Really.)
>>>       
>> I have to second step #4.  That's how long it really takes for all the
>> broken electrons to flow back down the wires to Comcast.
>>     
>
>   For those interested in "Why": What we're after here is two things:
>
>   One is that most cable operators have their modems set to speak to
> only one Ethernet (MAC) address on the customer side.  The modem
> associates with the first address it sees.  Power cycling the modem
> will reset this.  This one really only needs a wait for a few seconds.
>
>   The second thing is that sometimes there is some kind of glitch
> between the cable modem and the cable operator's plant (inclusive).
> Dropping signal at your end for several minutes will cause the
> head-end to decide you've gone away, and clear whatever state it keeps
> about you.  Thus when you come back, it re-does all of the
> initialization stuff.  If you come back too quickly, it might decide
> you just glitched for a bit, and keep that (presumably corrupt) state
> around.
>
> -- Ben
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