Furbitor
@comcast.net
| Comcast's anti network strategy
I just cant stand it. I used to have comcast cable and loved it to bits, then I had to move to dial-up land for nine awful months 12,000 baud!! Well, I moved back to the city and got comcast again, but lo and behold I couldn't set up my Internet connect like in the past. Used to be if I swapped modems or changed services, a quick call to comcast with a account number and a new mac address was all that was required. Bang, online again. But Nooooooooo.... Comcast wants to SELL me a Networking solution. They want to set me up with a wireless router and config it for me at a handsome fee.
Well, I will never go wireless. I prefer cabled architecture and own all the networking gear I need, got 4 comps a ps2 and printer... so not thinking I set it all up after the weird install... and the entire network was offline!
What comcast wants you to do, is to run that CD-rom they give you, which alters your browsers, and sets up your account. With their software/spyware. What they didn't say, was the comp had accessed the internet WITHOUT giving them the modem's MAC address, and then proceeded to set my account to the Mac address of the on-board NIC on the comp I set up.
So this means as soon as I put my comp behind the router, the network went offline.
Lucky for me, the router I own I can "spoof" the mac address, and then access the internet. But the question begs, What if I change NIC cards? get a different comp? Sure I can go thru the setup again, But I far prefer the day of the registering the Mac addy of the cable modem instead.
Sign me NOT PLEASED
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