Honestly, hook up the router. login to the router with your old laptop and have the router mask your wired MAC address.
99% sure this will work.
I have to go with at least trying this. Some years ago my cable internet vendor (AT&T/Comcast/TimeWarner...not sure which one it was at the time) was the same way.
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I have to go with at least trying this. Some years ago my cable internet vendor (AT&T/Comcast/TimeWarner...not sure which one it was at the time) was the same way.
Originally Posted by jumbopackage
You're going to have to power cycle the cable modem before you can change the computers plugged into it. It will only recognize the first MAC address it sees.
try cycling the modem with JUST the router plugged into it
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Yeah, you want the cable modem to see your router's WAN MAC address first. The rest of the computers plugged into the router don't matter since their MAC addresses don't pass through to the WAN port (that's the job of an IP router, after all).
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