Re: Network Questions

2005-02-28 Thread Luis Sequeira
Hi, Thanks for the help. Still not sure what to do, but to help clarify, my stay will be in Vienna, Au. The apartment owner says: the active connection cable box is in the studio some 30 feet away from the first virtual working desk in the apartment in the living area. Not exactly sure what

Re: Network Questions

2005-02-25 Thread Tom Adams
Hi, Thanks for the help. Still not sure what to do, but to help clarify, my stay will be in Vienna, Au. The apartment owner says: the active connection cable box is in the studio some 30 feet away from the first virtual working desk in the apartment in the living area. Not exactly sure

Re: Network Questions

2005-02-25 Thread thomas sappl
Hello Tom As I am workin at a viennese ISP maybe I could give you some hints *g* the active cable box = for me this sounds like a cable connection, here in Austria usually thru the company Chello. Chello does not chek the MAC adress of the router behind the cable box, you only have to set the

Re: Network Questions

2005-02-24 Thread Luis Sequeira
Hello Everyone, I will be staying in a home in Europe for several weeks, where there is a Mac G3 hooked to a broad band connection. The owner says that he has no active proxy and it is set up to work only with his computer. He believes that he has a static connection, but is not sure. He is

Re: Network Questions

2005-02-24 Thread Luis Sequeira
From my experience, i don't think there is a need for such convolute scheme. Most people, if they need to change the computer that connects to a cable or dsl modem, just have to turn the modem off so it can accept a connection from a machine with a different MAC address. And changing the

Re: Network Questions

2005-02-24 Thread Jan Musil
Possibly in your country. Not in Czech or Slovak Republic. Majority of ISPs are pretty tough there... Maybe if original poster could let us know which country in Europe he is going to... -- Honza www.lesninoviny.com -

Network Questions

2005-02-23 Thread Tom Adams
Hello Everyone, I will be staying in a home in Europe for several weeks, where there is a Mac G3 hooked to a broad band connection. The owner says that he has no active proxy and it is set up to work only with his computer. He believes that he has a static connection, but is not sure. He

Re: Network Questions

2005-02-23 Thread Jan Musil
The only option for you is to get router that enables you to change MAC address. Most European operators register one MAC address for a location and do not allow any other machines to connect/share the connection. If your friend has Ethernet cable connected to the computer there is some hope. The

Re: Network Questions

2005-02-23 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 23, 2005, at 6:17 AM, Tom Adams wrote: Hello Everyone, I will be staying in a home in Europe for several weeks, where there is a Mac G3 hooked to a broad band connection. The owner says that he has no active proxy and it is set up to work only with his computer. He believes that he