On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 14:28:36 +0100, "Iain Miller"
wrote:

The trickiest part will be the MAC address thing. The easiest way is
probably to connect your mate's PC directly to the CM first & get that
working & register all the necessary information with NTL. Once you've done
that then you can connect the router in the middle - when you set it up (and
before you connect it to the CM you'll need to clone the MAC address off the
PC you used in the first place (making sure that the router you buy has the
ability to spoof a MAC address of course!). That way when you connect the
router to the CM as far as NTL is concerned its still connected to the same
MAC address that it was originally.

You don't need to do any of this. Just plug the router in without any
PC connected, and NTL will issue it an IP. NTL no longer limit you to
one MAC and even if they did it doesn't matter.

Once the router has an IP (takes a couple of mins at the most), you
can plug in a PC and get configuring.

"Mark McIntyre" wrote in message
"You need a router. Thats all. I use a USR 8000-A which is a 4-port model
with builtin printserver, backup serial connection for dialup modem, NAT,
firewall and various other useful security features. Costs about £45."

Any other router recommendations that are known good with NTL kit?

As it's only a case of kids machine upstairs (not mission critical) and the
fact that I have a paid for but unused copy of winproxy it may be simpler to
use that in this case. I agree that a router would be a much more elegant
solution but the chap concerned is a heavy p2p user and I dread the thought
of running into difficukties with port forwarding like I did on my solwise
(combined modem/router).

If someone knows of a simple, easily available router thats not going to be
a nightmare to set up with winmx (tcp and udp) and will work happily with
his old win98 system then I may treat him myself. Mind you as a moron - I
may not.

On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 00:15:11 +0100 and in article
, Mark McIntyre said...
NTL no longer limit you to
one MAC and even if they did it doesn't matter.

My believe is this limit is now 3?

Close, it's 2 with a Cable Modem, but you still have to turn the thing
off & then back on again for it to register the change..

--
B-)
Life is pain.....
Deal with it!!

If someone knows of a simple, easily available router thats not going to
be
a nightmare to set up with winmx (tcp and udp) and will work happily with
his old win98 system then I may treat him myself. Mind you as a moron - I
may not.

D-Link 804 is what I use & I use WinMX from time to time without a problem.
Can't remember what I had to do to get it to work but I know it didn't take
long once I'd read up on it.

I.