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My last 'mac address cloning' issue was solved, but now I have another. Before I had to reset my router to disable and reset everything and it worked. Now I have to enable 'mac address clone' to get my pc and server to let me connect to them (thru 'MSTSC') with my wireless laptop and then I have to disable it to get on the internet. Is there a way for the pc and server to be reset and start off fresh?
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This is very likely to be a name resolution issue. When you do not have the MAC address cloned and you ping dan-pc, do you get replies?
Unless you have either a WINS server set up on your network, or all of your PCs have static DHCP leases at the router, or you run your own internal DNS server, or you have LMHosts file entries for all of your internal machines, it is unlikely you wil be able to resolve the names of the PCs on your LAN.
The easiest way for you is probably to reference them by IP address. If you changed the port they are listening on so you can access them seperately from outside your network (when you are not home for instance) you should append that oport number to the IP address in the mstsc address entry block, ie 192.168.1.10:3389 for one and 192.168.1.11:3399 for the other (that is as an example...I don't really know the IPs or the ports you used....
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MAC Address Cloning?

I am currently connected to my dorm room network with my AirPort Extreme successfully. However, when connecting for the first time, you are prompted to enter a username and password on a web page which authenticates your machine for the first time. The problem is, if I want to hook something else up wirelessly (Apple TV or PS3) I have to re-authenticate it using the web login, thus disconnecting my Mac from getting online.
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I am currently an Earthlink DSL subscriber. I love Earthink, but DSL is giving me all kinds of trouble. Covad owns the lines in my area and they are aweful... in any case...
I am going to switch to Comcast Cable Broadband. I have set up many people in the area with Comcast and a wireless router. It seems that Comcast does not do this everywhere, but in my area they "bind" to the MAC address of the NIC that you use to setup the connection (MAC Address Authentication).
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Advantage of cloning the MAC Address?

What's the advantage of cloning the MAC Address?
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There is no "advantage" of cloning the MAC address. The only advantage would be to have internet or not.
In many cases, it is absolutely unnecessary to use the MAC address clone.If you have a working internet connection through your router then there is no need to use the MAC address clone function.
Only when you find that you have a working internet connection on one computer directly on your modem but not when you connect through the router (or a different computer directly on the modem) then it is necessary to use the MAC address clone function.
This usually is only the case with cable TV ISPs. They only allow you to have a single active internet connection at any time. They do this by remembering the MAC address which connects through a specific modem. If you first connect a computer for tests directly to your modem you'll have an internet connection. Now if you connect a different device to your modem it doesn't it's because the ISP has still locked the internet connection for the MAC address of the first computer.
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No option of cloning MAC address

I was about to order the 2TB Time Capsule when I did an internet research and found out that there is no way to clone the MAC address of my existing Netgear router to the Time Capsule.
Last time I requested a change from my ISP it took several phone calls and left me without internet access for a week. I'm not willing to go through this again.
That's bad - for me since I really wanted the Time Capsule; - and for Apple because I won't buy it.

It's really too bad the Airport and Time Capsule do not support changing the MAC address. Editing the MAC address is a technology (an officially sanctioned technology BTW) that's been around as long as Ethernet (and was present on Token Ring as well)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LocallyAdministeredAddress
Right now I have a bug where one of my computers keeps dropping its WiFi association, but there is a workaround to set the first byte of the MAC address to a nonzero value. (I've confirmed all my apple gear has zeroes as the first byte). I can change this on my Belkin N1, and on every other machine, Apple or not, that I own. But, I can't change the address on my Airports. Changing the MAC address is a legitimate part of the 802 specification and I wish it were supported on the Airports. I have a significant investment in them, this minor technical detail would be an unfortunate reason to not be able to use them as access points.

How do I clone my computer's MAC address on to the AE base station?

This is just driving me nuts. I've looked at responses to this question on the internet, and it appears that the Airport Extreme Base Station can't perform a function that nearly all WAN home routers have been able to perform for a decade: "cloning" a MAC Address. My internet provider uses the MAC address of one of my computers to identify a valid connection, and my old Belkin router just cloned the computer's MAC address. If the AEBS can't do that then it's a rather serious design flaw, and if I'd known that I'd never have bought the device. I noticed that there's something called a "Client ID" so I input my computer's MAC Address for that, but the Base Station still can't connect to the internet.
I don't want to have my ISP reset my valid MAC address (even if they could, which isn't clear to me) because I may need to connect to the internet directly in the event of problems... say the Base Station malfunctions.
I bought the base station so that I could connect peripherals to it, but if it can't connect to the internet that renders it practically useless.
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I can see that no one is bothering to respond to this question, so I thought I'd post a resolution. I don't know if one can alter the ID of the AE Base by cloning a computer's MAC address. The next best thing would be to easily alter the MAC address that the ISP identifies as legitimate. If you have COMCAST's telephone modem (which has a battery backup so that it can't be rebooted by simply unplugging it) you can adopt the following procedure to reset the MAC address.
1. Reset the base station, by depressing the reset button in back with a pen or paper clip.
2. Unplug the base station.
3. Reset the Comcast cable modem, by depressing the reset button in the back with a pen or paper clip.
4. Plug the base station back in.
5. Use the Airport Utility to set the parameters of Airport Extreme.
This procedure will force COMCAST to recognize the Base Station MAC Address as legitimate for provisioning.
It's not an ideal solution, but it works. If the Base Station fails and you have to use a direct connection to your computer you can follow a similar procedure to reset the modem, and recognize a new MAC address.
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