Quote:
|
Originally posted by GHPorter: You probably need to call your cable provider and give them the MAC address of the NIC in your new computer. Many, if not most cable providers limit the number of machines you can connect to the modem by recording the unique MAC address of the network card you first connect to the modem. If you connect a new card (even a new card in the same computer), they sometimes refuse to function. This is one of several reasons (security being the foremost) that I use a "cable/DSL router." These boxes usually give you the capability to mimic the MAC address of whatever network device you want, so when you change computers (or cards) you don't have this sort of problem. Good luck. |
Thank you both for your help, I'll thry your suggestions tonight when I get home.
Also, GH, you hit on something I was thinking about. I originally plugged in the PM directly from the cable modem, so that the network preferences would copy over to the airport preferences (when I start up the airport). Doesn't the new (snow) AirPort double as a router, by plugging the modem to WAN and the computer to the extra Ethernet port?