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Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:37:06 -0400
From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] Road Runner (was: Re: [OS2Wireless] LinkSys
 WRT54G bridge help?)

On 10/08/07 02:11 pm, Will Honea thus wrote :
> ** Reply to message from "Lewis G Rosenthal"
> <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 13:45:32 -0400
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>
>   
>> On 10/08/07 11:38 am, Lothar Frommhold thus wrote :
>>     
>>> Hello all:
>>>
>>> I want to set up a WLAN at home using Roadrunner or similar and cable. 
>>> Roadrunner will support Windoze operating systems only and I wonder if 
>>> one can use eCS 2.0 and get it to work (2 laptop computers plus 1 
>>> printer). I have currently a DSL WLAN up and running (but find the 
>>> connections to be unreliable and flaky). Would the same (or similar) 
>>> setup be working with the Roadrunner cable modem? Any help you could 
>>> give me is much appreciated.
>>>
>>>       
>> Hi, Lothar. While most everyone has already addressed your issue, let me 
>> just add a couple other points to bear in mind:
>>
>>     
<snip>
>>    4. In order to obtain a DHCP lease (address), it is sometimes
>>       necessary to clone the MAC address of one of your wired machines
>>       into your router (not the Road Runner interface, but your own
>>       router/firewall behind it, such as a LinkSys WRT54G). If you find
>>       that you simply can't obtain an address, check this out.
>>    5. Further to #4, remember that as you will likely only get a single
>>       DHCP address, it is usually necessary to power down your cable
>>       equipment when switching to a different piece of hardware (unless
>>       you clone the MAC address). You may need to remain offline for a
>>       couple of minutes for your lease to expire and be able to obtain
>>       another one for the "new" hardware. This is normal, and probably
>>       similar to your experience with DSL hardware (assuming you're not
>>       using PPPoE or static addressing).
>>
>> Good luck, and let us know how your new connection works out!
>>     
>
> Items 4. and 5. are moot since you are using a router to connect to the modem. 
>   
Hi, Will.

Not if he *has* to use a Windows workstation to complete the initial 
setup and MAC address registration (in case tech support is unwilling to 
handle it on their end). I've had this happen (last time was with 
Verizon DSL, though, and not cable), and I didn't even have a Windows 
machine handy (only Linux). Very frustrating!
> In the last 2 weeks I've done what you want to do with Qwest DSL, RR cable, and
> a local wireless supplier.  All 3 use different "modems" but that is totally
> transparent to anything past the router.  Make that 4 systems - the only one I
> had to do anything to besides entering the account id and password was a local
> cable company that Comcast bought out.  That one wanted the MAC address of the
> ethernet card they provided and it took a phone call to get it set to the MAC
> address of the ROUTER instead of the ethernet card they provided.  I used an
> old Linksys BEFW1164 router on one and a Netgear $25 fry's special on the
> Comcast line - both routers were smart enough to handle the negotiations once
> they had the required data.  Only one service wanted the MAC address - the
> others wanted only an account ID and password.  The laptops and other boxes
> never knew the difference other than having to force the 24/7 units to get a
> new DHCP lease to get a pass-thru DNS address.
>
>   
It is true that most systems are moving away from the MAC address 
end-user registration systems of old. Hopefully, Lothar will get lucky, 
and it will be a simple plug'n'play setup. I just wanted to prepare him, 
as the first time I ran into the MAC address issue, I spent no less than 
two hours staring at the Linksys router trying to figure out why in 
blazes it couldn't get an address... ;-)

-- 
Lewis
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