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 that the modem picked earlier (from, say, a different router) will it be accepted, or wouldn't you still have to re-boot the modem to get it to use that new address? Or am I still not understanding this process?
First before you worry about this make sure your cable provider actually imposes a requirement to use a specific mac address. If they don't, and you never remember giving them a mac address before then just don't worry about it.
They don't. Someone was telling me it might be helpful to change the setting in the router related to the Mac address. That had me a bit confused. I think I now understand the 3 options it gives -- Use Default Mac Address -- Means use the one built into the router Use Computer Mac Address -- Means user your computer's Mac Address. Use This Mac Address -- Opens up the Router's Mac address box and lets you key in anything you want. 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 maybe I'm still not understanding it correctly. Anyway, just powering both down and back up again got it working.
If for some reason you must provide a mac address, turn over your old router and read the mac address off the bottom and key it in and select use THIS mac address, which means the netgear is to pretend its mac address was what you keyed in rather than what is burned in silicon inside.
Really, this is very seldom necessary, unless you had a static IP or something.
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