Anyone else having connection issues?

[Asp Explorer]

Calm down lol ... im on Cable internet, i change the Router mac address in order to change my IP. i guess im just too lazy to walk up to the 3rd floor to reset my modem...because resetting the router does not change my IP.

That makes even less sense. Your modem maintains your public IP address as delivered to it by your ISP - which keeps a record of which MAC is given that IP. Your private IP's are handed out by your DHCP server, which will be either your modem our router - or in horrible cases both.

You resetting your router MAC does absolutely nothing apart from confuse your modem - as your router is not working on your public IP - it's on an internal IP as handed out by your DHCP server - wether itself or the modem. If it was doing both duties - you wouldn't have a modem. Have you bridged anything or set subnets? Or have you just plugged everything in and hoped for the best?

 

[Jay_in_GPK]

That makes even less sense. Your modem maintains your public IP address as delivered to it by your ISP - which keeps a record of which MAC is given that IP. Your private IP's are handed out by your DHCP server, which will be either your modem our router - or in horrible cases both.

You resetting your router MAC does absolutely nothing apart from confuse your modem - as your router is not working on your public IP - it's on an internal IP as handed out by your DHCP server - wether itself or the modem. If it was doing both duties - you wouldn't have a modem. Have you bridged anything or set subnets? Or have you just plugged everything in and hoped for the best?

ok so nothing has changed in my setup for the past 2 years...i been playing this game for 423 hours now. my problem has occured since this last server connection problems. everything else works here... i been burning time on another online game for a while, i have no issues what so ever and the RE Install of ED did not help either.

there is nothing wrong with changing my router mac address. my ISP said it will not change anything but my IP. and my friend in networking said the same thing.

my router is the only bridge between my modem and my PC so there is no problems on my end. i will see in the morning if i can connect...if not, well i will open a ticket with FD... its 10:45 pm here and im gonna sleep

 

[Asp Explorer]

there is nothing wrong with changing my router mac address. my ISP said it will not change anything but my IP.

Get a better ISP.

and my friend in networking said the same thing.

Get a better networking friend.

my router is the only bridge between my modem and my PC so there is no problems on my end. i will see in the morning if i can connect...if not, well i will open a ticket with FD... its 10:45 pm here and im gonna sleep

Your router is not routing if it's a bridge, your modem is doing all the work - and your router is doing a huge amount of NOTHING apart from bridging - which should be your MODEM's job as a BRIDGE!

 

[Jay_in_GPK]

ok nancy give it a rest

nothing wrong here everything works like a charm now thanks

my router doing what its suposed to do... my modem doing its job...im gonna change my mac address 9 times before i go to bed just because i can... and i will keep a log of all the IP adresses my ISP assigns me every time i change my mac LOL.

so.... thanks for your info...im sure someone will find it useful. but ill just keep doing what i do cause it works for me thanks

 

[Asp Explorer]

ok nancy give it a rest

nothing wrong here everything works like a charm now thanks

my router doing what its suposed to do... my modem doing its job...im gonna change my mac address 9 times before i go to bed just because i can... and i will keep a log of all the IP adresses my ISP assigns me every time i change my mac LOL.

so.... thanks for your info...im sure someone will find it useful. but ill just keep doing what i do cause it works for me thanks

And for every wrong MAC you put in - someone somewhere loses their internet connection until a core router someplace goes "Hey - that's wrong - ignore this bad route, add to blacklist" and propagates it around.

 

[Brett C]

Closing.

Our apologies for the server blip this evening. The issue should be resolved as of a few hours ago.