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UtterlyBoring.com is produced by Jake Ortman (e-mail, resume), a 30-year-old dad, percussionist, freelance Web designer, consultant and jack-of-all-trades computer geek, living in Bend, Oregon. He created this so that his expensive journalism and technology degree isn't getting totally wasted. In addition to editing this site in his free time, he is the IT Director and Ad Designer at both Sunray and Discover Sunriver. He has LinkedIn, MySpace, Facebook profiles if you're trying to stalk him.
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I get to play detectiveWe recently had a cable modem disappear from one of our units here at work. The renters who stayed in the house last claim they don't have it. I don't believe them, nor does some of the staff, just based on the fact that we had trouble with these folks. So the modem is gone, and we ordered a new one from NewEgg (for $82 -- the cable company wanted to charge us $250). But there's only a couple thing you can do with a cable modem: pawn it off on someone, or hook it up on your cable system. Generally, to get it to work with a new cable system, you have to give them the MAC address. That's how many cable companies verify that you're a subscriber is by the MAC address of your modem -- if your modem's MAC is in their database, you can play. So what am I going to do? Get the MAC address of the stolen modem from our cable company, and then call the renter's cable company, just to see if they have that MAC address on their network. I'll keep you posted with my results. Posted by Jake on 05/15/03 @ 03:38 PM
Posted in Jake | 3 Comments | Permalink Submit to digg, del.icio.us, reddit, or stumbleupon 3 Commentsjojo said on 05/28/03 @ 05:36 PM:please keep us posted, this might make a good internet detective story. Jake Ortman said on 05/29/03 @ 08:46 AM: Actually, it ended up not being as productive as I thought. While I did get contacts at the various cable companies for our previous few guests, none of them showed the Mac address on their network. So we just ended up buying the $80 Linksys cable modem, and it works fine -- but it's bolted to the desk it's sitting on, that's for sure. jojo said on 05/29/03 @ 10:23 AM: thanks. Post a comment |
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