[LUGSB] Re: introduction and question

Charles P. Wright cwright at cs.sunysb.edu
Tue Jun 28 12:27:06 EDT 2005


On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 12:21 -0400, Lucas Carey wrote:
>  I get download speeds of ~700KBytes/sec regularly from campus, and upload speeds of ~115KBytes/sec uploading to campus. 
> If you are going to setup a router, you'll need to have it masquerade with the MAC address from the NIC on one of your computers, as they link the service to a MAC addy, and you have to call them to have it reset. Most routers have this ability. 
I personally haven't had this problem.  When the guy came to install it,
I tested it with my laptop and then switched to the router after he left
w/o any problems.  There is some point that you have to stick in a CD to
"register", which might be when the MAC association is made.

Charles




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