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Question about borrowing someones broadband internet.

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coolred

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I am currenly using dial up, but my mom has roadunner cable internet. Can i just plug the cable into my computer and use it to download SP2 and some other stuff?
 
I will look at those, but by the sounds of what you said, and by the looks of hubs and routers, your talking baout a permanent type of connection. I mearly just need the speed long enough to get a couple of big downloads and then thats it.
 
Yeah, I know what a router is and everything, but considering this is a one time deal, that I would like to do tonight if possible, i just don't see a reason to buy a router.

I was pretty sure I could get by with just plugging it into my computer, I just wanted to make sure, since if I mess up her internet she'll be a bit mad.
 
Um...unplug your mom's PC, plug your's in. If you don't have a NIC or if the cable modem doesn support USB, you're SOL.
 
Originally posted by: mrEvil
Um...unplug your mom's PC, plug your's in. If you don't have a NIC or if the cable modem doesn support USB, you're SOL.
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Nah!

RR is probably using Mom's Computer NIC MAC address for password.

You will have to open her computer take out the NIC put it in your computer and hook it to the Modem.

At the end you will have to reverse the process.

Too much work and risk for one time download.

🙁
 
Roadrunner could care less what NIC or MAC address is connected to the cable modem. All you need to do is to power cycle (unplug for 10 seconds or more then plug back in) the cable modem if comp cant get a RR IP address. Works for me in MN on Roadrunner and should work the same for you.
 
Originally posted by: JohnG86
Roadrunner could care less what NIC or MAC address is connected to the cable modem. All you need to do is to power cycle (unplug for 10 seconds or more then plug back in) the cable modem if comp cant get a RR IP address. Works for me in MN on Roadrunner and should work the same for you.
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Hmm.. so how to you explain the fact that it does not work for me in NYC?
 
Well I don't know whos right, since I gave up on that route and went with plan B. I just hooked my hard drive up to her computer and did it that way, got SP2 and a couple linux distros I wanted. But as I just reinstalled XP, I need to get all the available updates for it. Can anyone tell me how to do this, so that I can get all of them and save them to the hard drive and then install them later when I actually have my syetm powered up?

Obviously with the way I am working now, going to windows update, it recognizes her computer and what updates she already has, so I need to find a way around that, so it will sho wme all the avilable ones, and then just download them for a later install date. Help
 
Originally posted by: coolred
Well I don't know whos right, since I gave up on that route and went with plan B. I just hooked my hard drive up to her computer and did it that way, got SP2 and a couple linux distros I wanted. But as I just reinstalled XP, I need to get all the available updates for it. Can anyone tell me how to do this, so that I can get all of them and save them to the hard drive and then install them later when I actually have my syetm powered up?

Obviously with the way I am working now, going to windows update, it recognizes her computer and what updates she already has, so I need to find a way around that, so it will sho wme all the avilable ones, and then just download them for a later install date. Help
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sp2 contains all the avail security patches.
 
my mediacom cable connection lets me tell it what MAC address I want to use to connect, if I connect with a MAC address that is not accepted it takes me to some login page where I can change the MAC to the one I am currently using
 
sp2 contains all the avail security patches.
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Duh, I knew that, well at least I knew that in included SP1, I should have figured it included the rest of the critical updates. So after I install SP2, I will be fully up to date, unless something new comes out soon? Cool, thanks
 
RR in MA used to require using your specific provisioned NIC's MAC address in order to access the service. Some places are like that.

If you want to find out the MAC address of a machine, you don't need to open it up and take the card out, you could open a Command Prompt window on that machine, and do an 'ipconfig /all', preferably that PC connected to the cablemodem. It should list the MAC address of the NIC in the output.

Now, you should be able to power-down that PC, disconnect it from the cable modem, and then using the second PC, boot, go to Device Manager, select the NIC, properties, Advanced, and there should be a setting for "Network address". Select that, and type in the MAC address from the original PC. You may or may not need colons or dashes between each pair of hexidecimal numbers. There are six pairs of numbers altogether. After setting the MAC on the second computer, reboot, connect to the cable modem, and see if it works.
 
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