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IS YOUR ROUTER MAC ID BOUND TO YOUR INTERNET PROVIDER?
I bought my R8000 on October 23, 2014. I've owned MANY NETGEAR ROUTERS and had a cable modem here in Anchorage, Alaska for as long as I can remember. For quite some time now I've had the strangest ...
I figured out the problem early this morning after hundreds of hours work, THE R8000 IS DEFECTIVE. How do I know this: The WPS Quit Working Long Ago, Wireless Connectivity Was Spotty At Best And Seemed To Change With Every Boot Up, MAC ID Problems NOBODY Seems Willing To Explain To Me, I HOOKED UP MY OLD NETGEAR 900 AND IT WORKED PERFECTLY!! TO BAD MY WARRANTY EXPIRED ON OCTOBER 23RD, 2015
All you need to do is copy the MAC ADDRESS and when changing a router enter it and check you this MAC ADDRESS.
When your account was setup up the service tech used your PC without a router and that PC's LAN card's MAC ADDRESS was entered in your ISP's system. If your mac changes the ISP will hand out a different IP
Some ISP's won't authorise a different MAC Address without contacting them. Comcast really doesn't care, rebooting their modem with a different PC or router attached will work but the Public IP will change.