Re: Network help!!!

On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 17:33:27 GMT and in uk.local.glasgow, Taylor
wrote....

> "sme" <patrickc0ll@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1135740641.528307.277290@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> ok. connected up the laptop with an ethernet cable and its going
>> fine. using it to reply here! it's the wireless part which is the
>> problem. If it helps, i am using XP Pro and unfortunately connecting
>> via AOL. was reading something about spoofing my mac address as some
>> isp's don't allow more than one to connect. Any ideas?
>
> Hang on hang on hang on..... the only 'mac' address your ISP sees is
> your cable-modem, and possible your router's MAC address. All
> computers on the router's side (ie: your laptop and your home PC)
> *cannot* be seen by the outside world, unless they hack it ;)

Cheers for the suggestions but somehow i stumbled into it working. Don't
know how i did it but i don't care now its going. Away to stick Xnews on
the laptop.

Cheers the noo. :-)

--
sme
"It was never part of our plans not to play well, it just happened that
way" - Terry Venables
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