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fuck comcast

  • Feb. 21st, 2005 at 6:51 PM
psycho, moody, bitch, crazy, nutso
Ha, I figured out how to reconfigure my router settings, after like an hour of trial and error, I shook my fist in victory as the webpage www.google.com finally appeared. The key to my success was writing down my pc's mac address, whatever the fuck that is, and entering it in my router's software settings.

Comcast upgraded their servers on Sunday and fucked my router's settings and my pc's settings. I was pissed.

Now I just gotta reconfigure my wireless settings, and I think I am going to have to clone my laptop's mac address too.
  • Mood: pissed off

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[info]uxsquared wrote:
Feb. 22nd, 2005 01:56 am (UTC)
The "Media Access Control" or MAC address is a number hardcoded into the circuitry of your network interface device. It uniquely identifies your computer's networking component from all other networked devices.

Ask [info]recompiler for more info.
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[info]instantexpert wrote:
Feb. 22nd, 2005 01:16 pm (UTC)
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Some cable modems latch onto the first MAC address they ever see but it is more likely that all you needed to do was reboot the cable modem.

Cable modem will usually latch onto the first MAC address they see after reboot. So, while your fix works and will not hurt things, it should have been unnecessary with at reboot of the cable modem.

As far as the laptop goes. You absolutely 100% should not have to put the mac address anywhere. The cable modem will only see one address and that is the router's.
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