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On 10/19/2010 10:42 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
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<p>Because of recent conversations on this list about comcast versus
world, I feel compelled to tell this story: </p>
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<p>I have a friend, who is very computer proficient. He
called me up to talk about an IP address conflict on his home network.
He
told me he has comcast, and he has access to login to the comcast
router, and
the router is configured to give out IP addresses via DHCP, and the
dynamic
range is from 192.168.0.10 to 192.168.0.14. So they only give you 5 IP
addresses, and if you try to connect a 6th computer, you can't. You
get
an IP conflict, and somebody gets booted off the network. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>I told him, "Well, why don't you just change the
dynamic range?" He said you can't. He said he spent hours on
the phone with comcast, and they told him "Call netgear." I
couldn't believe him. So he initiated a screen sharing session, and
showed me. We considered flashing a nonstandard firmware onto the
comcast
router ... which seemed risky ... I suggested maybe looking up the
factory reset for the router. He said he already did that, and it just
resets to Comcast factory condition. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>He's got a home server, a printer, two laptops, and two
desktops. He can't use them all at the same time. Nevermind, god
forbid, he should have anything like vonage, or a PDA, or a couple of
teenage
children with computers. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>We concluded there's only one possible solution: He
needs to buy another router, and hook the outside of his new router to
the
inside of the comcast router. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>We concluded there is one, and precisely one, possible
reason for comcast to be stingy with the 192.168.x.x IP addresses.
They're
just being d**ks and there is no other possible explanation. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Oh - Get this - While all his other computers and stuff were
on, and his laptop had an IP conflict which was preventing him from
starting
his screen sharing session ... I suggested that he just assign himself
a
static IP address, 192.168.0.15. He did this. He could ping the
gateway. But he could not ping outside the gateway. So in addition
to the dynamic range being pathetically small, they also apply a filter
to
prevent you from using any static IP outside of the dynamic range.
D**ks. </p>
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I've been using Comcast for years north of Boston and it simply doesn't
work like this where I live. You don't even have to use one bit of
Comcast equipment on your line; I've had my own motorola surfboard for
years, and put whatever I want behind it (dd-wrt, soekris, linksys).<br>
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Frankly I don't even understand how they would accomplish this since
they don't control the internal LAN. They might control the firmware on
their router, but just replace it since it's probably garbage anyways.<br>
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