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From: Sid Elbow on 29 Oct 2009 12:13 John John - MVP wrote: > I have a Rogers broadband connection at my residence and I have not had > any problems with this, I'm not surprised actually which was why I added the "(or used to)". I dumped them years ago. Competition with dsl probably forced them to change.
From: John John - MVP on 29 Oct 2009 12:50 Sid Elbow wrote: > John John - MVP wrote: > >> I have a Rogers broadband connection at my residence and I have not >> had any problems with this, > > I'm not surprised actually which was why I added the "(or used to)". I > dumped them years ago. Competition with dsl probably forced them to change. At my residence, they (cable) are the only high speed providers. At work I use the telco's DSL. Broadband is easier to set up than DSL, you just plug it in and it works. But our telco's DSL service is much more professional, their service is way better and their phone support is much more knowledgeable than the bunch of 'after hours teenagers' who man the phones for the cable company. When Rogers changed their DNS server to point to a spam server the punks at the phone support center told me that my VPN problems were caused by my 'infrequent' reboots of my computers, he told me that Windows computers *needed* to be rebooted every day and that doing so would or might help resolve my VPN/DNS problems! John
From: Meinolf Weber [MVP-DS] on 29 Oct 2009 13:08 Hello smlunatick, If this is the case and i read now from the others posters, that's a kind of normal, but old fashioned, way, i would choose another ISP. But keep in mind that the MAC must be unique at least in your LAN. There are tools in the internbet available to change MAC addresses, if you really will change it: http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&source=hp&q=mac+address+changer&meta=&aq=f&oq= Best regards Meinolf Weber Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm > On Oct 29, 7:25 am, Meinolf Weber [MVP-DS] <meiweb@(nospam)gmx.de> > wrote: > >> Hello aa, >> >> There is no need to change a MAC address in your computer. MAC >> addresses are unique all over the world, depending on a company code >> and the internal numbering of the company. >> >> I have never heard that an ISP uses MAC addresses from clients. >> Please be more specific what your problem is and also talk to your >> ISP to free the MAC address, if this is really used from the ISP, >> which i can not really believe. >> >> Best regards >> >> Meinolf Weber >> Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and >> confers >> no rights. >> ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups >> ** HELP us help YOU!!!http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm >>> is there a way to change physical address of Ethernet Adapter which >>> shows up in ipconfig /all like 00-11-2F-00-11-2D ? >>> >>> My Internet provider uses this address to set something on their end >>> manually. For the moment I am testing another computer and every >>> time I switch between the two computers I have to call the provider >>> > Some ISPs detect the MAC address and lock their service access to that > specific one. Routers usually have a feature which allows you to > "copy" this MAC address onto the WAN port. >
From: Sid Elbow on 29 Oct 2009 13:17 John John - MVP wrote: > When Rogers changed their DNS > server to point to a spam server the punks at the phone support center > told me that my VPN problems were caused by my 'infrequent' reboots of > my computers, Can't you bypass Rogers' DNS by configuring another in your router?
From: John John - MVP on 29 Oct 2009 14:01
Sid Elbow wrote: > John John - MVP wrote: > >> When Rogers changed their DNS server to point to a spam server the >> punks at the phone support center told me that my VPN problems were >> caused by my 'infrequent' reboots of my computers, > > Can't you bypass Rogers' DNS by configuring another in your router? Yes, but why should I rely on a free out of Canada DNS server like OpenDNS in Chicago and more importantly why should Rogers offload its DNS server load to someone else? I pay them to provide this service not to route my DNS requests to a SPAM server! My telco would never try a stunt like that, as I said they are more business oriented. John |