I don't know where in the world you are but over in the UK with
Blueyonder (Cable Modem Provider) they allow a maximum of 5 computer to
be connected to the cable modem through a router, they do this by only
allowing certain MAC addresses, by default only the orginal PC's MAC
address is set up, we would have to talk to blueyonder to get them to
Register the other MAC addresses to enable the other computers to work,
of cause there is a work around, you could set up a proxy server, so
that the cable modem only thinks there is one computer connected to it,
and the other computer connects to the internet via the other PC

Si Anderson

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Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Lan Connection Problems

On 6 Aug 2001, at 20:45, William Shouse wrote:

>Hello,
>I have a problem with my Cable Internet connection. I
>have a LAN setup around a 5 port linksys switch. I am
>only running 2 systems and recently I am unable to
>have both connected at the same time. They both had
>been working great for the last 9 months. I made no
>changes to protocols or hardware.
>I can have either one connected or able to connect
but
>
>I have to reset the one I want to connect by turning
>my cable modem off and resetting the IP address. At
>that time I can go and restart which ever computer I
>want to connect but then I can't connect on the
other.
>It is like one takes over the others place.
>I thought maybe the switch was bad but I got a new
one
>
>and hooked it up with the same result.
>Could the cable company have a way to limit my
>connections? I can't think of anything on my end that
>could have changed.
>Any help is appreciated.
>Thanks
>William Shouse

  I've heard of a similar problem before, where although the user had
ordered multiple-address service from their cable provider, the
provider had configured their access to allow only a single machine
at any time.
  It sounds like your provider may have, for some reason, reset your
service in thsi fashion.

David Gillett

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