John Andersen wrote:
I suggest you speak to someone who might actually know something.
She clearly doesn't. Its not her fault, she was looking for a job when
they were looking for someone to answer the phone.
Cloning a mac address is nothing more than taking the mac address from
one of your
John Andersen wrote:
He got it working BEFORE he talked to Tracie.
Nothing she told him had any effect on the solution.
Wrong is still wrong Anders.
The connection worked, but was s l o w . Afterwards it was much
faster, both upload and download.
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Billie Walsh
Anders Johansson wrote:
On Friday 26 January 2007 05:49, John Andersen wrote:
On Thursday 25 January 2007 15:43, Billie Erin Walsh wrote:
Actually you have it entirely correct.
I asked a couple more questions. Tracie was the one actually talking to
our ISP and doing
On Friday 26 January 2007 13:27, James Knott wrote:
And aren't you missing that point that what was described is
impossible? A MAC address has absolutely nothing to do with
performance. Other than it systems that filter on MACs, it should make
absolutely no difference what address is used.
On Friday 26 January 2007 08:51, John Andersen wrote:
On Thursday 25 January 2007 21:46, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Friday 26 January 2007 05:49, John Andersen wrote:
On Thursday 25 January 2007 15:43, Billie Erin Walsh wrote:
Actually you have it entirely correct.
I
Anders Johansson wrote:
On Friday 26 January 2007 13:27, James Knott wrote:
And aren't you missing that point that what was described is
impossible? A MAC address has absolutely nothing to do with
performance. Other than it systems that filter on MACs, it should make
absolutely no
On Friday 26 January 2007 18:56, James Knott wrote:
The problem is that someone will pass that on as a fix. Next, people
who don't know what they're doing will attempt to fix something and in
the process, may create more problems. I have seen this sort of thing
happen over the many years I
James Knott wrote:
That simply doesn't make sense. The purpose of the MAC address is to
enable devices to communicate over the local network and nothing more.
I'm just shooting in the dark here, but
When you clone the MAC Address what are you actually doing?
Our
Billie Erin Walsh wrote:
James Knott wrote:
That simply doesn't make sense. The purpose of the MAC address is to
enable devices to communicate over the local network and nothing more.
I'm just shooting in the dark here, but
When you clone the
On Thursday, January 25, 2007 @ 5:46 AM, Billie Erin Walsh wrote:
James Knott wrote:
That simply doesn't make sense. The purpose of the MAC address is to
enable devices to communicate over the local network and nothing
more.
I'm just shooting in the dark here, but
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 12:36 -0600, Greg Wallace wrote:
On Thursday, January 25, 2007 @ 5:46 AM, Billie Erin Walsh wrote:
James Knott wrote:
That simply doesn't make sense. The purpose of the MAC address is to
enable devices to communicate over the local network and nothing
more.
Greg Wallace wrote:
On Thursday, January 25, 2007 @ 5:46 AM, Billie Erin Walsh wrote:
James Knott wrote:
That simply doesn't make sense. The purpose of the MAC address is to
enable devices to communicate over the local network and nothing
more.
I'm just
Kenneth Schneider wrote:
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 12:36 -0600, Greg Wallace wrote:
On Thursday, January 25, 2007 @ 5:46 AM, Billie Erin Walsh wrote:
James Knott wrote:
That simply doesn't make sense. The purpose of the MAC address is to
enable devices to
On Thursday 25 January 2007 15:43, Billie Erin Walsh wrote:
Actually you have it entirely correct.
I asked a couple more questions. Tracie was the one actually talking to
our ISP and doing the work. She said it was to clone the MAC address
from the modem into the router. Something
On Friday 26 January 2007 05:49, John Andersen wrote:
On Thursday 25 January 2007 15:43, Billie Erin Walsh wrote:
Actually you have it entirely correct.
I asked a couple more questions. Tracie was the one actually talking to
our ISP and doing the work. She said it was to clone
On Thursday 25 January 2007 21:46, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Friday 26 January 2007 05:49, John Andersen wrote:
On Thursday 25 January 2007 15:43, Billie Erin Walsh wrote:
Actually you have it entirely correct.
I asked a couple more questions. Tracie was the one actually
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 21:18, Greg Wallace wrote:
I think my modem just grabs the Mac address off of the router when it's
booted and connected to the router, so any of those 3 should work, meaning
just leaving it as the default Use Default Mac Address is all I think I
really needed, but
John Andersen wrote:
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 17:07, Greg Wallace wrote:
Thanks,
Greg Wallace
I've been doing some googling on this and I'm still a bit confused. When
you choose, for example, Use This Mac Address, if that's not the mac
address that the modem picked earlier
On Wednesday, January 24, 2007 @ 2:33 AM, John Anderson wrote:
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 21:18, Greg Wallace wrote:
I think my modem just grabs the Mac address off of the router when it's
booted and connected to the router, so any of those 3 should work,
meaning
just leaving it as the default
On Wednesday, January 24, 2007 @ 6:20 AM, James Knott wrote:
snip
Many systems, including the one I'm on, will only work with one MAC.
However, changing it only requires turning the modem off for a few
minutes and then on again.
Apparently, that's the way mine works. I had turned the old
At 11:47 AM 1/24/2007, Greg Wallace wrote:
On Wednesday, January 24, 2007 @ 6:20 AM, James Knott wrote:
snip
Many systems, including the one I'm on, will only work with one MAC.
However, changing it only requires turning the modem off for a few
minutes and then on again.
Its more then likely
Greg Wallace wrote:
On Wednesday, January 24, 2007 @ 6:20 AM, James Knott wrote:
snip
Many systems, including the one I'm on, will only work with one MAC.
However, changing it only requires turning the modem off for a few
minutes and then on again.
Apparently, that's the way mine
On Wednesday, January 24, 2007 @ 12:20 PM, Jack Malone wrote:
At 11:47 AM 1/24/2007, Greg Wallace wrote:
On Wednesday, January 24, 2007 @ 6:20 AM, James Knott wrote:
snip
Many systems, including the one I'm on, will only work with one MAC.
However, changing it only requires turning the modem
* Greg Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] [01-24-07 14:57]:
[...]
I can hook up a new device to my modem with no problem, as long as I
power cycle the modem first. Apparently, from some of the notes I'm
reading, some ISPs lock you in to a single mac address, as you're
describing. Not the case with
On Wednesday, January 24, 2007 @ 2:48 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Greg Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] [01-24-07 14:57]:
[...]
I can hook up a new device to my modem with no problem, as long as I
power cycle the modem first. Apparently, from some of the notes I'm
reading, some ISPs lock you in
We have a wireless ISP. When we first got it set up it just wasn't as
fast as it should be. One of his instructions was to clone the mac
address. After that was done the service kicked butt. I'm not sure what
it does but it made a huge difference in both the up and down speeds.
We did the same
* Greg Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] [01-24-07 18:36]:
[...]
Interesting. If you were using a modem like mine, would you have the
worst of both worlds, or is your router somehow able to overcome the
fact that the modem would normally only talk to a single router?
The modem has only one output,
Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Greg Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] [01-24-07 18:36]:
[...]
Interesting. If you were using a modem like mine, would you have the
worst of both worlds, or is your router somehow able to overcome the
fact that the modem would normally only talk to a single router?
Billie Erin Walsh wrote:
We have a wireless ISP. When we first got it set up it just wasn't as
fast as it should be. One of his instructions was to clone the mac
address. After that was done the service kicked butt. I'm not sure what
it does but it made a huge difference in both the up and
James Knott wrote:
That simply doesn't make sense. The purpose of the MAC address is to
enable devices to communicate over the local network and nothing more.
Also, once you've passed through a router, the original MAC is replaced
that of the router port you're going through. Cloning a MAC
Billie Erin Walsh wrote:
James Knott wrote:
That simply doesn't make sense. The purpose of the MAC address is to
enable devices to communicate over the local network and nothing more.
Also, once you've passed through a router, the original MAC is replaced
that of the router port you're
A
The modem has only one output, but that output can be attached to a
switch and multiple routers from there and/or the routers daisy
chained.
I don't understand modem would normally only talk to a single
router?.
I suspect cable modems do that, to prevent people from getting more IP
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 08:47, Greg Wallace wrote:
Apparently, that's the way mine works. I had turned the old router on and
off a dozen times without re-booting the modem. However, switching in the
new router (with a new mac address) wouldn't work with out re-booting the
modem. I've
On Monday 22 January 2007 21:07, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 2007-01-22 21:31, Greg Wallace wrote:
snip
John Anderson mentioned that active ftp wasn't supported on his Netgear.
I really don't know the difference between the two. My assumption is
that limitation wouldn't cause me any
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 09:34, John Andersen wrote:
On Monday 22 January 2007 21:07, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 2007-01-22 21:31, Greg Wallace wrote:
snip
John Anderson mentioned that active ftp wasn't supported on his
Netgear. I really don't know the difference between the two.
The last 2 routers I actually bought are Netgear. I used the 4-port
first about 2 years before buying the FVS318 with 8 ports to replace it.
That happened nearly 2 years ago now. Or maybe it was 3 then 2. Anyway,
the old is my backup in case a problem develops with the new.
--
I vote for
Jack Malone wrote:
The last 2 routers I actually bought are Netgear. I used the 4-port
first about 2 years before buying the FVS318 with 8 ports to replace it.
That happened nearly 2 years ago now. Or maybe it was 3 then 2. Anyway,
the old is my backup in case a problem develops with the
Greg Wallace wrote:
I just purchased a Belkin 4 port router and the built-in firewall in it is
leaking like a sieve (constantly getting intrusions). I had always used
Linksys, but they just don't seem to last very long in my experience. So,
I'm looking for alternatives. I like IOGEAR
Greg Wallace wrote:
John Anderson mentioned that active ftp wasn't supported on his Netgear. I
really don't know the difference between the two. My assumption is that
limitation wouldn't cause me any inconvenience.
It would make a difference if you were to use command line ftp in
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 04:48, Samir van de Sand wrote:
Well, if you are searching for a Wlan Router I would recommend the
Linksys WRT54GL. It is an open source router and Linksys explicitly
allows you to install third-party (like OpenWRT).
A friend of mine has this router and he his very
I have been using a d-link DI524 wired/wireless combo, been running
continuously for about 2 years. I have no complaints. The firewall
has not let me down, the few times I boot windows around here (for
repairing windows pcs) I have no intrusions and I am sure most of the
machines that I repair
On Tuesday, January 23, 2007 @ 12:08 AM, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 2007-01-22 21:31, Greg Wallace wrote:
snip
John Anderson mentioned that active ftp wasn't supported on his Netgear.
I
really don't know the difference between the two. My assumption is that
limitation wouldn't cause me any
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 10:11, Greg Wallace wrote:
On Tuesday, January 23, 2007 @ 12:08 AM, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 2007-01-22 21:31, Greg Wallace wrote:
snip
John Anderson mentioned that active ftp wasn't supported on his Netgear.
I
really don't know the difference between the
On Tuesday, January 23, 207 @ 1:27 PM, John Anderson wrote:
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 10:11, Greg Wallace wrote:
On Tuesday, January 23, 2007 @ 12:08 AM, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 2007-01-22 21:31, Greg Wallace wrote:
snip
John Anderson mentioned that active ftp wasn't supported on his
On Monday, January 22, 2007 @ 8:50 PM, John Andersen wrote:
On Monday 22 January 2007 17:32, Greg Wallace wrote:
I just purchased a Belkin 4 port router and the built-in firewall in it
is
leaking like a sieve (constantly getting intrusions). I had always used
Linksys, but they just don't seem
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 13:41, Greg Wallace wrote:
[...]
Well John, I went down to Fry's today and bought a Netgear 4 port router.
I tried to set it up and it couldn't even connect to my ISP, which is cable
modem and assigns ip addresses automatically (so how could it fail to get
the
* Greg Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] [01-23-07 17:19]:
Well John, I went down to Fry's today and bought a Netgear 4 port
router. I tried to set it up and it couldn't even connect to my ISP,
which is cable modem and assigns ip addresses automatically (so how
could it fail to get the address?).
Greg Wallace wrote:
On Monday, January 22, 2007 @ 8:50 PM, John Andersen wrote:
On Monday 22 January 2007 17:32, Greg Wallace wrote:
I just purchased a Belkin 4 port router and the built-in firewall in it
is
leaking like a sieve (constantly getting intrusions). I had
On Tuesday, January 23, 2007 @ 4:22 PM, Jim Cunning wrote:
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 13:41, Greg Wallace wrote:
[...]
Well John, I went down to Fry's today and bought a Netgear 4 port router.
I tried to set it up and it couldn't even connect to my ISP, which is
cable
modem and assigns ip
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 15:19, Greg Wallace wrote:
On Tuesday, January 23, 2007 @ 4:22 PM, Jim Cunning wrote:
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 13:41, Greg Wallace wrote:
[...]
One way to avoid this situation is to use the Clone MAC Address function
many routers have, so they appear to have the
On Tuesday, Jauary 23, 2007 @ 6:13 PM, Jim Cunning wrote:
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 15:19, Greg Wallace wrote:
On Tuesday, January 23, 2007 @ 4:22 PM, Jim Cunning wrote:
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 13:41, Greg Wallace wrote:
[...]
One way to avoid this situation is to use the Clone MAC Address
Kenneth Schneider wrote:
On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 15:41 -0600, Greg Wallace wrote:
On Monday, January 22, 2007 @ 8:50 PM, John Andersen wrote:
Snip
--
Well John, I went down to Fry's today and bought a Netgear 4 port router. I
tried to set it up and it couldn't even
On Tuesday, January 23, 2007 @ 6:55 PM, I wrote:
On Tuesday, Jauary 23, 2007 @ 6:13 PM, Jim Cunning wrote:
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 15:19, Greg Wallace wrote:
On Tuesday, January 23, 2007 @ 4:22 PM, Jim Cunning wrote:
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 13:41, Greg Wallace wrote:
[...]
One way to
On Tuesday, January 23, 2007 @ 7:51 PM, Joseph Loo wrote:
snip
Before you returned your router, did you make sure that it did not try
to use ppoe to make the connection and not configured with just plaing
DHCP?
I hadn't returned the router and the problem had to do with my not syncing
with my
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 12:41, Greg Wallace wrote:
Well John, I went down to Fry's today and bought a Netgear 4 port router. I
tried to set it up and it couldn't even connect to my ISP, which is cable
modem and assigns ip addresses automatically (so how could it fail to get
the
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 17:07, Greg Wallace wrote:
Thanks,
Greg Wallace
I've been doing some googling on this and I'm still a bit confused. When
you choose, for example, Use This Mac Address, if that's not the mac
address that the modem picked earlier (from, say, a different router)
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 18:07, Greg Wallace wrote:
[...]
Ok. I found it. I picked Use This Mac Address which already had an
address in it but was grayed out until I selected it. Is that the Mac
Address of the modem, or of the router?
I don't know. You might be able to tell by comparing
On Tuesday, January 23, 2007 @ 11:02 PM, John Anderson wrote:
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 12:41, Greg Wallace wrote:
Well John, I went down to Fry's today and bought a Netgear 4 port router.
I
tried to set it up and it couldn't even connect to my ISP, which is cable
modem and assigns ip
On Tuesday, January 23, 2007 @ 11:07 PM, John Anderson wrote:
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 17:07, Greg Wallace wrote:
Thanks,
Greg Wallace
I've been doing some googling on this and I'm still a bit confused. When
you choose, for example, Use This Mac Address, if that's not the mac
address
On Tuesday, January 23, 2007 @ 11:26 PM, Jim Cunning wrote:
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 18:07, Greg Wallace wrote:
[...]
Ok. I found it. I picked Use This Mac Address which already had an
address in it but was grayed out until I selected it. Is that the Mac
Address of the modem, or of the
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 22:24, Greg Wallace wrote:
[...]
This feature of most routers is essential, however,
when an ISP requires that packets arriving at the cable modem be from some
known (to them) MAC address, often one registered with them when signing
up
for their service. This
On 22 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In doing some browsing, I found out that Netgear and D-Link both make
wired routers. Anyone had experience with either of these? Anyone
have another alternative brand to recommend?
I have pretty good experience with my D-Link. The builtin firewall is
On Monday 22 January 2007 17:32, Greg Wallace wrote:
I just purchased a Belkin 4 port router and the built-in firewall in it is
leaking like a sieve (constantly getting intrusions). I had always used
Linksys, but they just don't seem to last very long in my experience. So,
I'm looking for
On 2007/01/22 20:32 (GMT-0600) Greg Wallace apparently typed:\n
I just purchased a Belkin 4 port router and the built-in firewall in it is
leaking like a sieve (constantly getting intrusions). I had always used
Did you try updating to the latest firmware?
Linksys, but they just don't seem
On Monday, January 22, 2007 @ 9:02 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2007/01/22 20:32 (GMT-0600) Greg Wallace apparently typed:\n
I just purchased a Belkin 4 port router and the built-in firewall in it
is
leaking like a sieve (constantly getting intrusions). I had always used
Did you try updating to
Greg Wallace wrote:
... I found out that Netgear and D-Link both
make wired routers. Anyone had experience with either of these? Anyone
have another alternative brand to recommend?
My Netgear RP614v2 has done quite well for several years now. I tried
it with one of those sites that scan
On 2007-01-22 21:31, Greg Wallace wrote:
snip
John Anderson mentioned that active ftp wasn't supported on his Netgear. I
really don't know the difference between the two. My assumption is that
limitation wouldn't cause me any inconvenience.
http://slacksite.com/other/ftp.html
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