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Nighthawk CAX30S- How do I turn on Modem Mode?
I'm waiting for my older brother (he has the app) to wake up so that he can do this, as I'm unable to login to routerlogin.net both on my computer and phone. My understanding is the following: we ...
Just spoke to a technician from my ISP who spoke to his supervisor who said "the ISP doesn't give out the power to change IPs to people under residential plans" or something along the lines of that. I think the only thing we can do is change ISP. I'm gonna update the post with this information.
EDIT: Can't edit the original post, in summary for anyone experiencing the same / similar problem as me; Mediacom (my ISP) technician and his supervisor were unable to change my IP, said we would have to pay hundreds of dollars more per month for a business plan just for that privilege. I've heard of people in the US having dynamic IPs that change public IPv4 every time the router is reset, so I have no idea why Mediacom would take such a stance on this issue. I think the last resort is to call them and let them know we'll have to change ISP if they can't resolve this issue for us.
You'll only get a single public ip address. The ISP assigns that to your account and leaves the router to give private IP addresses.
Why do you think you need different public ones?
You should be able to game fine
I absolutely need a separate one from my brother because I'm HWID banned from Rust and EFT (two games with extremely strict anti-cheat and ban evasion measures) and my brother is going to be getting both of these games for Christmas. I don't know about EFT, but I do know that if he tries to play Rust, at least half of the servers he'll join on the same IP as me will cause him to be automatically banned.
My friend told me that by turning modem mode on (router mode off) he was able to have a separate IP from his brother's.
EDIT: using a VPN won't work on Rust unfortunately
HWID band tends to be specific to the hardware device its played on. Is he on a different hardware or console?
That might help.
Otherwise your SOL. Bans are for a reason and its not easy enough to just change the modem to fix it.
He is on his own computer. The issue is that in Rust, server admins are very proactive about catching people who ban evade, almost always checking if players on their servers share the same IP with any game banned steam accounts (I have multiple because the first ban didn't tell me it was HWID). You can't use VPNs on most Rust servers either. He can play Rust but as long as our IP is the same, admins will think we're the same person, and if you try to explain it was "my brother" they just assume you're lying. I live with three brothers including him that game on PC, none of them have ever played Rust so up until now it wasn't an issue, but he wants to try it and it's my fault for getting banned years ago so I'm trying to rectify the situation for him.
If there's a way to just change our IP, I can make sure to only login to my steam accounts on a VPN, and that would be good enough.
Just spoke to a technician from my ISP who spoke to his supervisor who said "the ISP doesn't give out the power to change IPs to people under residential plans" or something along the lines of that. I think the only thing we can do is change ISP. I'm gonna update the post with this information.
EDIT: Can't edit the original post, in summary for anyone experiencing the same / similar problem as me; Mediacom (my ISP) technician and his supervisor were unable to change my IP, said we would have to pay hundreds of dollars more per month for a business plan just for that privilege. I've heard of people in the US having dynamic IPs that change public IPv4 every time the router is reset, so I have no idea why Mediacom would take such a stance on this issue. I think the last resort is to call them and let them know we'll have to change ISP if they can't resolve this issue for us.
simple test of that is to hotspot your phone and connect a pc/laptop to it. If that doesn't work, changing ISP's won't help
Also changing WAN IPs depends on ISP policy as well. Some ISP have dynamic changing policy that for one given WAN IP, has to be leased for a period of time, then if the policy allows for it, after the pollicy least expires then the WAN IP could change to a different IP on a reboot, power cycle or reset, depending on availability. And again, depending on ISP policys. Not all ISPs are the same.
