On 1 Aug 2006 10:16:47 -0700 snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote: | Phil, | | I know my Netgear router is an MR814 model. The Adelphia router... I | dont have that info with me.. Its some strange brand Id never heard | of... "Teryadon" or something like that. The Vonage router is made by | Linksys...... I'll get all the model #'s tonite when I get back home. | | The MAC address Adelphia registered is from their cable modem. Which | MAC address should I give them?
It should be the MAC address that their DHCP will authenticate for an IP assignment, if they are using that. If the "modem" is also acting as a router (it could ... I cannot rul that out) then perhaps the MAC of the "modem" is what their DHCP will see the request as coming from. If it HAS a MAC address, that doesn't necessarily mean it is using it to play router with. It would need it to connect to it for doing some configuration in the router itself.
You should ask of the Adelphia support people very clearly _which_ MAC address it is they need. Perhaps the router is in a funny mode which plays router when directly connected to a PC, as opposed the more common methods of doing DHCP or PPPoE inside the PC system, with the modem just being a demodulator/modulator of the data frames (that's why they call it a modem).
| Heres how I ran my routers before and worked fine for the last year and | a half: | | 1> cable modem | 2> vonage linksys | 3> netgear wireless
Which MAC address did you give to THAT cable company?
| For my vonage VOIP to work well, I run it first before my wireless | router. Which MAC address should I give Adelphia? My vonage MAC # or | the wireless MAC #?
Whichever device is going to connect permanently directly to the modem and route packets for everything else.
People in the past have all kinds of trouble when they do things like change ethernet card or change computer. They have to re-register the new MAC address of it. It may be for this reason that they have given you something that is NOT just a modem. It might well be a combination modem and router. In that case, you would need to configure things in your router in a rather different way.
The exact modem brand and model number is needed. Maybe from that someone can discover what it really is capable of. Or maybe someone has Adelphia and uses it here that can say what it does.