You should now have a connection.
If not, throw that TP-Stink POS router in the trash and buy an Asus.
Basically, it seems that reference implies Comcast, even though they might not even know it themselves, is requiring *two* MAC addresses for authentication:
Had I known that when we set it up, I would have made the router DE:AD:BE:EF:CA:FE, which at least I can remember.
There was one disturbing sentence in your reference:
"some ISPs have started to recognize the MAC addresses of popular routers and disconnect service if a router is detected."
A router is a requirement, not an option; so if they are doing that, they stink as ISPs.
Thank you for that explanation. It had never occurred to me that the ISP (in this case, Comcast), was requiring, for authentication, *two* MAC addresses!
Apparently the second MAC address is that of the router because I looked up the OIC which shows it to be a TP-Link MAC address:
So, the cable company is *indiscriminate* in that they'll take *any* Mac address, probably set up at the time we started the service.
Sheesh. Why didn't they just tell me this?
replying to Ken Cito, Gab wrote: I have same problem in Canada, work at an ISP which is also my cable provider, ONLY ARCHER C5 have that problem, will try to make a firmware update on it
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