Testing a single machine is hardly ruling out anything!
Arg, for christ's sake, it's a standard motorola modem and they all work the same. It
does not take 30min of power off to reset or timeout at the cable co. Either it's the
modem caching or your account is PERMANENTLY (barring phone call to CATV co or MAC
clone on router) tied to the CPE MAC.
1. connect modem into CPE
2. power modem up
3. power CPE up
4. Modem learns CPE's MAC address
5. Modem requests IP lease from the head-end.
Changing the CPE requires:
1. unplug the modem long enough to loose power (< 1min)
2. unplug old CPE
3. follow above list using new CPE
This procedure works every time, I did it many times over 5 years on Comcast in NJ.
If somehow your area falls into the permanent MAC method than simply cloning the MAC
of PC1 to the router solves that issue. In fact you could simply do that and not have
to mess with power cycling anything but the router.
Stan Zaske wrote:
I am reminded again how much I liked Insight before Comcast bought them.
As much trouble as I've had since then I suspected foul play. I'm pretty
sure my router is bad because past experience tells me it should work
without any user config from me. Too bad my modem doesn't serve any DHCP
or it would have worked plugged into my LAN. Until a couple days ago
extending all the way back to when I first installed this router (1996)
all my boxes connected to the Internet and that includes the one running
PCLinuxOS Tiny Me. Since my modem is working and not caching the MAC
addy it must be a router malf. Thanks again.
