Atlanta Area DSL (Bellsouth) Network Issue

[RazeOrc]

I recently bought DSL from Bellsouth and it seems they want you to buy an upgrade for an extra $10 per month to allow home networking. I have no interest in spending more money on crap service to begin with so i'm wondering how to do it myself. I have a linksys 4port router with latest firmware, and i've had 4 comps running on a college T3 line as well as a Cable internet service and other DSL services. But Bellsouth seems to really be monopolizing on their DSL access service.

It seems Bellsouth has setup the IP address as a "192" subnet. I know this because my computer which is not behind the linksys router right now has an ip of 192.168.1.102 when i do 'ipconfig.' My gateway, DNS and DHCP are all a 192 as well. My question is what settings do I need to use on my linky to get around this annoying inconvenience.

 

[bozo1]

You need to clone the MAC address of the PC that BellSouth has on file to your router.

 

[RazeOrc]

Unfortunatley cloning the mac address has met with no luck, I think bellsouth setup everyone out there on a subnet address specifically so we couldn't use our routers to do homenetworking, anyone know of a way around this?

 

[BS911]

You could probably make your PC be the router if your running 2000/XP. I've never done this but I am positive its possible with atleast XP Pro.

 

[Ulfwald]

Let me guess, you have a Bellsouth modem?

They are doing something to the modems that interfere with subnetting and masking.
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