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Posted by Warren on April 12, 2006, 1:11 am
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> On 04/11/06 02:26 am DLR 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.
>
> ISTR that both with OptimumOnline (NY Metro area ISP) and with Charter
> in MI (where I "recycled" the modem I'd used with OOL), the ISP had to
> take note of the cable modem's MAC address and authorize/configure
> that specific device. Otherwise, how do they prevent Fred Freeloader
> down the street from buying a cable modem, hooking it up, and getting
> free broadband Internet access? Or how do they prevent me from buying
> a second cable modem, hooking it up, and getting double the bandwidth
> free?
You're getting off on another direction. The discussion was about the
MAC address of a device behind the cablemodem, not the cablemodem's MAC
address. But yes, the cablemodem's MAC address needs to be provisioned
on the network in order to get access to the Internet. Most ISP's now
use bottom-up provisioning, that is you plug in the cablemodem, the
network recognizes that it's not provisioned, and you're sent to an
online provisioning system where you need to enter your account number
and other identifying information in order to automatically provision
the cablemodem.
--
Warren H.
==========
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