I want to ask if anyone else who is on sky broadband and uses a 3rd party router:- do you get kicked off the network (lose IP address but remain connected to exchange) within 7-30 days if you haven't spoofed the MAC address to make it the same as you sky router....
because I do.
I dont need to do it too get connected, its like there are random checks, quickest its happened was about a week after previous one and longest I waited was about 1 month after previous one..
its done this with
Netgear DG834GT
Speedtouch 585v6
Huawei HG612
I actually used the Netgear with a spoofed MAC beecause someone told me I needed to otherwise I may get kicked off network, one day i thought I would try it without and about 7 days later I got kicked off - I went back to the sky router (2504N) after that - then some time later i tried the speedtouch 585v6 and I had issues with that - then I was back on Netgear (spoofed) and sky router (SR101) - now Iam on the Huawei HG612 , there is no easy way to spoof MAC in this and I have regularly been kicked off the network, still connected to the exchange, just no IP Address, there is no pattern to dates or times when it happens , but seems to happen within 7-30 days.
I have found out a way to spoof MAC in the HG612 and am gunna try it and see what happens.
like I say it connects fine, to me it seems to be periodic checks.
I wondered if anyone else uses non-sky routers on sky's Broadband Unlimited