Other router manufacturers have that functionality as well.
Spectrum mac address mac#
Our router was Asus RT-AC68W but most if not all recent Asus routers have the mac clone capability. Just click on the Mac Clone button and leave the WAN Connection type to “Automatic IP”. The router now “acts” as the computer with which you activated the service and you can still have your automatic IP setup as expected. So how can you trick the modem to think that the computer that activated the service is the router? Here is where the mac clone functionality of the router comes into play. They can change the IP anytime they want. That worked until Spectrum issued a new IP to us which was expected since we did not order static IP from them. The initial idea we had was we would set up the router with a static IP (which we got from our computer) and then have the modem as the gateway. So the mac address of the computer was stored. In our case, the router was added after the modem was activated with a computer connected to it. What happens is the modem records the computer mac address and from that point on it gets tricky to make it work with a router.
Then adding the router to this setup should just work, right? Well not exactly. Activate the modem and make sure there is a working internet connection. The mistake many people do is to connect the computer to the modem first. The way Spectrum makes the setup easy and secure is to remember your computer mac address If that is how you activated your model all should be fine and working.
The important step here is to make sure you activate your model only after you have connected your router to it and your computer to the router.
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