Router mac address cloning

[Angst]

Forgive me if this is a stupid question but would setting the mac address of the router to that of my desktop hide the devices connected to it from my isp? If not is there a way to do this?
Thanks

 

[Angst]

We have ask4 in out student accommodation and they are limiting the number of devices we can connect to our account by registering there mac addresses. Cloning the mac address on my laptop means i can use it but only if my pc isnt connected at teh same time.

 

[Angst]

The phsyical connection isnt the problem ive got a wireless switch hooked up its that we can only have 2 devices registered for use, and we can only change the registered mac addresses 8 times. Therefore i cant connect my phone via wifi etc aswell as the pc and laptop.

 

[Angst]

What's a switches MAC address got to do with it as it wont be a source MAC address... and change all the MAC addresses to the same one? What if he wants to use 2 devices at a time?

Your best bet would be to use an ethernet router (read cable router) and set the MAC address on routers external interfaces to something similar to your laptop, register it with the ISP, make sure NAT is enabled and ensure the LAN side network range is different to the ISP if they use private addressing (if they use 10.x.x.x, use 192.168.x.x or 172.16.x.x). The reason you set the router to a laptop MAC address is because if you register a Netgear MAC address allocated to routers then it could set alarm bells ringing!

It will probably be against the terms and conditions, but then again most of the methods of defeating the limit will be, so you have to decide if that risk is worth the reward.

So if i understand this correctly it will hide the mac addresses of all the devices connected to my side of the router and show as a single device with one incoming ip address?

 

[Angst]

Correct.

Thanks for your help mate.

 

[Angst]

What's a switches MAC address got to do with it as it wont be a source MAC address... and change all the MAC addresses to the same one? What if he wants to use 2 devices at a time?

Your best bet would be to use an ethernet router (read cable router) and set the MAC address on routers external interfaces to something similar to your laptop, register it with the ISP, make sure NAT is enabled and ensure the LAN side network range is different to the ISP if they use private addressing (if they use 10.x.x.x, use 192.168.x.x or 172.16.x.x). The reason you set the router to a laptop MAC address is because if you register a Netgear MAC address allocated to routers then it could set alarm bells ringing!

It will probably be against the terms and conditions, but then again most of the methods of defeating the limit will be, so you have to decide if that risk is worth the reward.

Well even after doing all this they can detect the router apparently and block my internet connection unless i turn off the routers dhcp

 

[Angst]

Turn off DHCP and manually set all IPs then?

How will that help? The problem is they are limiting devices by mac address, i was told using the router this way they would see the entire network as just one device but they have detected the router even after i have set it up as instructed.

 

[Angst]

Yes i did mate, but when i have it set up like that they can detect it somehow i guess redirected to a nice message saying my internet is blocked until i turn off dhcp.