"Michael White" <someone@microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the suggestion. How do I clone the MAC address?
>

I agree with the previous suggestion - I had a similar problem with DSL a
while ago

Get into router's set up utility, search the configurations or go to the
help section for 'clone MAC address'.
In effect, you tell your router to report itself as a the same as the unit
you had working properly and just removed.

Generally, a DSL modem needs to associate with a specific network card, as
part of the ISP's protocol for assigning IP numbers to specific accounts. If
you move the network card (with or without a computer) to another DSL
equipped location, it will still think it is you in the new locations.
Similarly, if you put a new network card in your computer, it will think
that is a different account until you 'tell' the ISP about that. References
to 'network card' above apply equally to 'router'.

This is very diferent from a cable modem, which look after that for you.

Stuart





> "Mr User" <not@home.com> wrote in message
> news:H9Tsh.56793$1W1.17955@newsfe4-win.ntli.net...
>> Michael White wrote:
>>> Some time ago I had a Netgear RP614 wired router connected to the DSL
>>> modem, and everything worked fine. Later, I had a Belkin Wireless G
>>> router connected to the DSL modem, and everything worked fine. However,
>>> when I went back to have the Netgear RP614 connected to the DSL modem,
>>> the same Netgear wired router no longer worked with the DSL modem.
>>> Fortunately, the Belkin wireless router still worked with the DSL modem.
>>>
>>> Recently, I obtained an Airlink101 AR504 wired router. It worked very
>>> well with the DSL modem. Surprisingly, when I replaced it with the
>>> Belkin wireless router, the latter no longer worked with the DSL modem.
>>>
>>> In other words, now I have a working Airlink101 wired router but a
>>> non-working Netgear wired router and a non-working Belkin wirless
>>> router. What did I do wrong?
>>>
>>> Thanks for the help.
>>
>> It may be your ISP only allows one MAC address if you clone the MAC it
>> may work. Just a guess though.
>
>