From: black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don Hills)

In article , "Glenn Meadows"
 wrote:
>Yea, typically on cable modems, when you first sign up, the match the Mac
>Address of the hooked up computer to the cable modem itself.  When you put a
>router in, that mac Address is changed, so for me at least, using the
>computer you originally configured with to admin the router, there's a
>button to "clone" the mac address of the PC you're on, to the
Router, and
>that's what the cable modem sees as the connected device.

The cable service I use doesn't have that requirement. I don't see why it
should be required in the first place.

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