Calling all linksys owners

edgedemon · 15 Sep 2008 at 13:53

I have been doing a bit of research before connecting my Linksys WRT610N to my virgin media cable router and came across an FAQ for connecting linksys routers to cable modems. It looks like some form of MAC authentication, which probably isn't a bad idea, I have just never come across a home router setup that required it...

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]Click on the Clone Your PC’s MAC button. Once this is done, the “User Defined Entry” will show MAC Address of the Ethernet Adapter of the computer you are using. Verify this address with the “Adapter Address” or “Physical Address” observed in earlier steps.[/FONT]

Has anyone else with a linksys router had to go through this, and do you have to add each MAC you want to connect to the router?
Id post on the linksys forums, but I cant access them with my account, just get stuck in an endless loop asking me to login, even though I am! :mad:

tolien · 15 Sep 2008 at 14:05

You're adding the MAC address of your network card so the cable modem thinks it's that still connected to it, rather than the router.
You don't have to do that, just follow the process in the sticky (disconnect machine from modem, modem off, modem on, wait for lights to settle, connect router, done).

edgedemon · 15 Sep 2008 at 14:17

Is that a linksys thing then, as the 2 netgears I have had, never did that (unless it was done transparently)??

tolien · 15 Sep 2008 at 14:30

No, it's common to Virgin Media.

helmutcheese · 15 Sep 2008 at 14:44

Hmm, I did not have to do that a while back on VM with Customers set up's and Linksys.

I did however set the Router to only allow MAC's from the customers 2 Laptops on the Wifi so no one can use it (easily) even if they did get pass/wep etc.

tolien · 15 Sep 2008 at 14:54

MAC address filtering on the wireless side is a different issue.

helmutcheese · 15 Sep 2008 at 15:01

Ya I read that but since when did they make you set up MAC for Wired ?.

tolien · 15 Sep 2008 at 15:11

They've cared what MAC address was attached to the modem since day one.

helmutcheese · 15 Sep 2008 at 15:16

Hmm, I simply plugged it in and it all worked, and the same for the MAC (Apple) in other room, simply took 2 reboots of the MAC to set up.

Though this was some new added thing TBH lol.

tolien · 15 Sep 2008 at 15:18

This isn't on the LAN side - this is the modem caring about what's connected directly to it, i.e. you couldn't disconnect the router and attach something else without jumping through hoops.