Can't connect to internet while away

Last year while visiting friends away from home I brought my G4 laptop (Leopard) along and simply connected an ethernet cable from my friends cable modom (sp?)to my laptop.
I immediately got connected to the internet without doing anything else. I am now back at my friends house this year doing the same thing and all I get is "I am not connected to the internet".
What more is involved in getting on the internet other than connecting to someone else's modom with an ethernet connection? Thanks.

When connecting directly to a cable modem you may have issues as some ISP use MAC address authentication. So often a cable modem has to learn a new MAC address.
To fix this issue you normally turn off the cable modem for 10 mins then connect the new device and startup the modem and then reboot the computer.
Long term the solution would be to put a router between the cable modem and the computer. The router would then maintain the connection.

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