Force IP change with Comcast cable

[Informative]

Never said anything about hacking or cracking a cable modem.

The cable modem ID number is for Digital service and has nothing to do with your computers MAC ID that I'm talking about. The computer you connect to the cable modem is the one that gets the IP not the modem because that is digital service id.

Ok this the simple way - Lets say you have a 1st computer connected to the cable modem. If you unplug the power of the cable modem and then change the 1st computer out with a 2nd computer and plug cable modem back in - Bang you got a new IP from comcast. Lets say you unplug the 2nd computer and then you power down the cable modem and connect the 1st computer - bang you old ip again.

Change the MAC number of the Computer will change the ip from comcast.

The MAC address is the id of who sent what and who gets what on a network. Comcast can do nothing about what MAC I use - but is most the problems on large cloned computers.

Your Router acts like a computer and in your Router's menu you will see a clone ip button. This button will clone the MAC ID from the computer you connected to the Router's menu on and will copy the computers MAC and the Service has no clue you got a router. This is not a crime unless you are told by your service " You can't do that"

If your cable service goes by the Computers MAC then you have no control over the IP.

no drama please

[Steve R Jones]

Please note that this thread is 17 MONTHS old.

[Informative]

Thanks for the welcome

We should not point out or give out info on cable modems.

we are only talking computers MAC that are connected to the modem.

[Informative]

Please note that this thread is 17 MONTHS old.

Does not mean anything to Google when you do a search.

[photolady]

But it does on Virtual Dr. Older threads are usually not answered or even read by members who started them.

[etrenank]

Does not mean anything to Google when you do a search.

Indeed. This information (particularly the responses that arrived long after the original question was posed) was very beneficial to me. While the forum moderators may find older posts brought to the forefront a significant irritation (a phenomenon known idiomatically as "necroing"), an individual happening upon a salient response cares nothing of how long ago the original question evoked it. If the programming languages allow, perhaps a suitable answer would be disallowing responses occurring more than three months (arbitrary) after the last to move the thread to the front of the sub-forum. This would allow questions to be explicated regardless of their chronological relevance, i.e. the likelihood the original poster will notice the response.

The only real danger of forum disruption occurs when silly, 'flame'-ridden or otherwise off-topic threads are 'necroed,' displacing apposite content that may not receive due attention. Luckily, moderators can easily make that distinction and move/delete inappropriate threads when required.

For your consideration.