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Posted by DLR on April 11, 2006, 5:28 am
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$Bill wrote:
> DLR wrote:
>
>> Eric wrote:
>>
>>> Warren Wrote: > Power-down the cable modem, the router, and the
>>> computer. Wait a half a
>>>
>>>> minute or so, and then power things up in order: Modem first (let it sync),
>>>> then router, and finally the computer.
>>> Then, DLR wrote: "I'd go for 10 minutes"
>>>
>>> Nope. 3-5 seconds is just fine when reseting a modem. If you're having
>>> to wait 10 minutes for a simple power cycle to be sucessful, something
>>> else is going on.
>>>
>> Around here TWC learns the Mac address at the other end and you have to
>> be off long enough for the head end to notice and forget the Mac. Don't
>> know what the polling time is but 10 minutes always works. 10 seconds
>> rarely does.
>
> If the MAC hasn't changed and you're just resetting the modem to pick
> up the downstream devices (router in this case), why would it have to
> learn the MAC address ?
>
> I'm not sure what the orig. problem was since it's gone from my history.
>
>
The issue was if you change the attached "device" how long to make the
cable modem forget the MAC address of the attached device. I've found
that with TWC in central NC (this may vary greatly elsewhere), you have
to turn the modem off for 5 minutes or more to ENSURE the head end will
notice it's off and the head end forget the ONE MAC address that it will
respond to.
Any of meaning of the start of this and I misunderstood.
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