WRT600N weird MAC Address issue

I've had the Linksys WRT600N for several months. One day the internet connection stopped working, after I power cycled it, I called support and they had me change the router to clone MAC address after that it worked. If I took off the cloned MAC the internet wouldnt work. So I got curious after that and I restored the router the settings file I had backed up previously. I tried my internet connection and everything worked. No clone MAC address, however, after about a month it stopped again. The issue was making sure clone mac address was on. My question is why does that keep happening there shouldnt be a reason that it would need my computers mac if my isp doesnt need me to do thaa. (ISP = Optimium) Has anyone had this problem or know what the cause is?

You have to tell what you did exactly if it did not work.
Generally: many ISPs (most cable ISPs) only grant you a single public IP address, i.e. a single device connected to their service. Most do this by storing the MAC address of the device connected to the modem. If you connect a different device with a different MAC address into the modem they won't accept it. You won't get an IP address. You don't have internet. Only the device with the MAC address stored (or a modified MAC address set to the stored MAC address) will have internet.
Some ISPs reset the stored MAC address if you call them. With a few ISPs this is the only option.
Most ISPs reset the MAC address after a few hours of inactivity or in fixed intervals.
Some ISPs recognize if you reset the modem and reset the MAC address then.
After it is reset you can connect a different device and it will get the IP address.
Now, if your internet at some point does not work and for a test you connect the computer directly to the modem and you get internet then, at that moment you already have locked in MAC address of the computer and you have to use the MAC address clone on the router.
Thus, if you need the MAC address clone or not depends on what you did when exactly after how much time of inactivity when the internet did not work anymore.

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Saw your comments on this in the post about the 1.9 bios for neo2platty ....
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just thought You would like to know.... Your not alone

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Message Edited by gmyers on 08-19-2008 10:35 PM

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It looks odd it is like a bunch of 8080808080....maybe I better try the fix.
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.... This is why there are separate MAC addresses
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Windows XP, tried both the front of the printer as well as connecting via USB and using the software.
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