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Re: [help] 851W and ISP DHCP OK, I'm totally in shock, but when I cloned the MAC of my Actiontec router, the 851W got assigned an IP! It's so strange because I never cloned the MAC address on either of the Linksys routers I tried.
Now it seems that the 851W is a bit slow on my connection. When I ran a speed test, I only got about 8Mb/s from my 15Mb/s connection. Any suggestions on how to improve that? |
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aryobaPremium,MVM
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kudos:1 | Aha! So your ISP (Verizon?) does lock down your WAN router interface MAC address .... 
The Linksys router was probably running some non-compliance RFC code that could somehow "go around" the MAC address lock down. Typically consumer-grade routers like Linksys are behaving so.
Well, at least now you can connect using your 851W router even you feel it is slow. One thing I can think of is the application inspection. When you notice, your router inspects a lot of application traffic; especially those that are running over HTTP like IM. If you like to experiment, you can try to remove the inspection and see if your connection is running faster. |
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| Thanks for the help.
I was amazed when it worked, but I was glad I followed your suggestion!
I'll work on taking out the application inspection. I put a fair amount of stuff in there that I probably will never use. I kind of want the paranoid route to start with. |
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