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Originally Posted by sv.akula
I own a hp pavilion notebook and I've been using it to connect to internet. Vergin Media is my broadband provider. Suddenly this morning i experienced problems connecting to the internet. The wireless connection is working fine but no internet.
I called vergin media customer support, they say after asking me few details about my computer, my network card mac is stolen and somebody else is using my netword card mac. Hence i don't get internet connection on my laptop from virgin media. I'm really surprised how this can happen.
Please advice me what should i do now.
Thanks
Srini
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It annoys me when they give out information like that, what they mean is that it looks like someone on your uBR has a NIC with a duplicate MAC address, either intentionally or purely because the manufacturer was lazy and did ensure that the same MAC address was not given to another machine.
What tends to happen is only one of you willl get on the internet and the other person is unable till the other NIC comes of the internet then the reverse happens.
Usually the only way around this is to either swap your NIC, not very easy on a laptop or use a router which will give you another MAC address to put on the internet.