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Originally posted by widebody911
If this is true, then that's Cox suckage of incredible magnitude.

Hahah, ROFLMAO. So True.

SoCal,
I worked in a call center for Bell-Atlantic back when they first introduced DSL. At the time they were registering the MAC address of the remote device and that was the only device/MAC that would get an address. I'm sure they've changed, and my DSL here in Houston is like that, but since he has a cable modem and a router, if the topology is the norm then the mac shouldn't be an issue.

The norm is

sp~~~~~~modem-----router------PC

With that setup the PC MAC should never come into play as far as the SP is concerned. The router MAC should be the only MAC that the SP sees. That's the whole point of those routers. Is for the SP to see one device and for the user to be able to plug several devices into the back of the router that can all connect simultaneously despite only having one connection and one IP from the SP.

Like Thom says. If Cox is somehow not working like that....