Charles,
At least for AT&T Broadband, you can call them on the phone and give them a
new MAC address (since you are allowed to buy new computers!). In my case,
once the cable modem was up and working with one computer, I just called
them and gave them the MAC address for my router/firewall/NAT. They
switched it on the spot.
Cheers,
Andy
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At 11/29/2001 08:42 AM -0600, Charles Adams wrote:
It's rather difficult to give a cable company the MAC address of your
router, when in fact they setup your connection on-site. There's also the
assumption that you can change the MAC address on all routers. For most
people on this list, it would be somewhat simple to 'foil the system' of a
cable company. I just have a hard time believing that the majority of the
customer base for a cable company would have the technical ability to do so.
Charles