If you do that, reboot your modem at the same time. From a docsis level
they filter only one mac at a time (unless you pay for more), and
flipping mac's won't always simply work.

-mb

On 08/30/2012 11:55 AM, JD Austin wrote:
> They go off the network mac address that you're sending them; many
> devices let you spoof anything you want.
> If you can still boot the old one get it's mac address and spoof it on
> the new one.
>
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:33 AM, keith smith <klsmith2020@yahoo.com
> <mailto:klsmith2020@yahoo.com>> wrote:
>
>
>    Hi,
>
>    Last night, after 6 years of good loyal service, my D-Link router
>    died. I just happened to have a never used 2 year old Netgear
>    router in my closet. I hooked it up and everything was fine at
>    first. I have a static IP and it changed. I called Cox and was told
>    I needed to configure my router to tell them what my IP is. I'm not
>    a network guru, so this hit me kind of strange. I thought they
>    assigned IP's.
>
>    Any thoughts on this are much appreciated.
>
>    ------------------------
>    Keith Smith
>
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