Can't use new router

After two days, I finally give up.

Here is my story:

Bought a Buffalo NAS drive, it would not connect to my router. Tech support
said that there are problems with that drive and my router, so today I
bought one of their routers. No luck connecting to the internet. After
several hours, I got myself a Netgear router. Same thing. Will not connect
to the internet though the Buffalo NAS drive works fine with it (and with
the Buffalo router for that matter).

I called Verizon (my ISP) and they told me that for some reason the Linksys
(my first router) Mac address is somehow bound to their system and it would
take a couple of days to "unbind" it.

I tried changing the Netgear MAC address to my computer's address (which is
what I had the Linksys set up to), in its configuration, no luck.

Anyone have any experience with this kind of fiasco? I can't believe I am
tied to that Linksys router until Verizon does something on their end. Does
this make sense?

On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:39:17 GMT, "Jay A" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>After two days, I finally give up.
>
>Here is my story:
>
>Bought a Buffalo NAS drive, it would not connect to my router. Tech support
>said that there are problems with that drive and my router, so today I
>bought one of their routers. No luck connecting to the internet. After
>several hours, I got myself a Netgear router. Same thing. Will not connect
>to the internet though the Buffalo NAS drive works fine with it (and with
>the Buffalo router for that matter).
>
>I called Verizon (my ISP) and they told me that for some reason the Linksys
>(my first router) Mac address is somehow bound to their system and it would
>take a couple of days to "unbind" it.
>
>I tried changing the Netgear MAC address to my computer's address (which is
>what I had the Linksys set up to), in its configuration, no luck.
>
>Anyone have any experience with this kind of fiasco? I can't believe I am
>tied to that Linksys router until Verizon does something on their end. Does
>this make sense?
>
Hello -
I also have Vz. DSL, and have experienced the problem of which you
speak. I found that if you tun everything off for a couple of hours,
make sure it's all connected and then plug in the modem first,
followed by the router 1 - 2 minutes later. This worked for me.

Never had to wait 2 days.. With the linksys, you can verify that it
connected properly by going to the STATUS page in the router setup
and looking at the WAN/IP address. - as long as it's not 0.0.0.0,
you should be in business.

Dave

If you have a Westell modem, it has an IP address of 192.168.1.1. Change the
IP address of your router to something else. I would suggest 192.168.100.1.
Make sure it is getting a Dynamic IP from Verizon. If it works connected
directly to your computer, try cloning the MAC address of that computer.


"Jay A" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> After two days, I finally give up.
>
> Here is my story:
>
> Bought a Buffalo NAS drive, it would not connect to my router. Tech
> support said that there are problems with that drive and my router, so
> today I bought one of their routers. No luck connecting to the internet.
> After several hours, I got myself a Netgear router. Same thing. Will not
> connect to the internet though the Buffalo NAS drive works fine with it
> (and with the Buffalo router for that matter).
>
> I called Verizon (my ISP) and they told me that for some reason the
> Linksys (my first router) Mac address is somehow bound to their system and
> it would take a couple of days to "unbind" it.
>
> I tried changing the Netgear MAC address to my computer's address (which
> is what I had the Linksys set up to), in its configuration, no luck.
>
> Anyone have any experience with this kind of fiasco? I can't believe I am
> tied to that Linksys router until Verizon does something on their end.
> Does this make sense?
>