On Tuesday 09 March 2021 08:12:47 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Tuesday, March 09, 2021 12:12:40 AM Felix Miata wrote: > > David Wright composed on 2021-03-08 22:37 (UTC-0600): > > > I realise that, but if your service were to become unsatisfactory, > > > then before you complained, you'd want to check that it's not your > > > modem at fault. Would you expect your spare modem to work, because > > > it has a different MAC from what's expected by the ISP's end of > > > the line. > > > > Whenever I get a mind to, I call my ISP, tell them I'm changing > > modems, and what the new MAC is. It gives me some confidence it's > > still useful. If there's a problem they or I think a modem switch > > might shed light on, I do the same. > > I have DSL service, and a spare modem that I've occasionally put in > service (for testing the "main" modem) and have not had to notify the > ISP. (They were both provided by the ISP (Earthlink).) > > I don't know if cable modems would work the same -- I don't know if > the ISP sees the MAC address on a DSL line.
Generally they do, I too have 2 routers, and own them both, but one has the others MAC cloned into it, so my supposedly volatile ipv4 address has been fixed for over a decade, making namecheap registration of the link in the sig a no-brain-er. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
