> From: nate at refried.org > Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 18:43:25 -0500 > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 09:48:29PM -0500, Tim Wilson wrote: > > I just got my Comcast broadband connected and I sat down to hit Slashdot > ... > > You were denied access because: > > Access denied by access control list. > > I don't know if Comcast is still doing this but they used to require you > to provision your cable modem to get it to run. That meant telling > their tech support what the MAC address of the cable modem and the > MAC address of the computer behind it was. I think there was a serial > number for the cable modem too. So if you used your laptop to test the > connection when the cable guy was there, then moved in your firewall > box, you had to call tech support to change it over before it would > work. I got cable Internet from AT&T (now Comcast) last year. They installed a butt-ugly, no, fugly 3Com cable modem. Not only fugly, but not stackable. I bought a LinkSys cable modem, and of course before doing anything else, installed it. I couldn't get anywhere I wanted to... until I tried attbi.com. That worked. I called their tech. support and was put on hold. While I was waiting, I found my account setup, added my new cable modem to the list of devices, removed the old one and everything was dandy. I hung up before a real person answered. I did not have to provide the MAC of my computer, nor did I have to change anything when I added a router between the two. One would hope that the new Comcast.net site still has such a feature. Chris _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list