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andy.j · 16-12-2006, 15:17

Hi guys,

First, apologies if this kind of problem has been posted and solved elsewhere, i had a quick look but couldn't find anything like my problem...

So, for about 2 weeks now i've been using bittorrent to download and share some live bootlegs (yes, legal files) and i've used maybe 30GB downstream/15GB upstream in that 2 weeks. (this is with the 4mb package.) I'm in the staffordshire WS14 area. Operating system is windows XP SP2.

A couple of days back, suddenly something happened and i couldn't access anything (web, games, messenger etc), yet the lights on the modem (a blue ntl 250 i think it is called) seemed to suggest everything was OK. I have a netgear router connected to the modem, and I could get into the router settings fine, but not the modem via 192.168.100.1, as I usually would, as it wouldn't respond. After rebooting everything I eventually found the router wasn't being "sent any info" by the modem...like not being able to get the modem's IP address etc. The modem was connected to NTL fine as far as I know - it wasn't receiving or sending any traffic though - yet it was "rejecting" the router access (i think.)

I connected the computer to the modem directly, instead of through the router, and suddenly everything worked. So I thought, the computer's MAC address is different, so if i change the router MAC address it might work - and it did, I connected everything up as before but with the router's new MAC address changed to the computer's MAC address and it worked perfectly.

But what could have caused the modem to not accept the router's old MAC address? I'm worried it was because of the bittorrent traffic, and I haven't turned it on since managing to reconnect, but I don't see why it should be that as everything I was using it for was legal and as far as I know there aren't any DL/UL limits?

Sorry this is quite a long post but I wanted to make sure everything that happened was written down. Hopefully someone can figure out what happened, I don't want it to reoccur, haha..

Thanks!

16-12-2006, 15:17	#1
andy.j Inactive Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 4	NTL, bittorrent & mac addresses? Hi guys, First, apologies if this kind of problem has been posted and solved elsewhere, i had a quick look but couldn't find anything like my problem... So, for about 2 weeks now i've been using bittorrent to download and share some live bootlegs (yes, legal files) and i've used maybe 30GB downstream/15GB upstream in that 2 weeks. (this is with the 4mb package.) I'm in the staffordshire WS14 area. Operating system is windows XP SP2. A couple of days back, suddenly something happened and i couldn't access anything (web, games, messenger etc), yet the lights on the modem (a blue ntl 250 i think it is called) seemed to suggest everything was OK. I have a netgear router connected to the modem, and I could get into the router settings fine, but not the modem via 192.168.100.1, as I usually would, as it wouldn't respond. After rebooting everything I eventually found the router wasn't being "sent any info" by the modem...like not being able to get the modem's IP address etc. The modem was connected to NTL fine as far as I know - it wasn't receiving or sending any traffic though - yet it was "rejecting" the router access (i think.) I connected the computer to the modem directly, instead of through the router, and suddenly everything worked. So I thought, the computer's MAC address is different, so if i change the router MAC address it might work - and it did, I connected everything up as before but with the router's new MAC address changed to the computer's MAC address and it worked perfectly. But what could have caused the modem to not accept the router's old MAC address? I'm worried it was because of the bittorrent traffic, and I haven't turned it on since managing to reconnect, but I don't see why it should be that as everything I was using it for was legal and as far as I know there aren't any DL/UL limits? Sorry this is quite a long post but I wanted to make sure everything that happened was written down. Hopefully someone can figure out what happened, I don't want it to reoccur, haha.. Thanks!