Wireless and internet kept going down

philinux

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Sep 18, 2013
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Hey guys,

Here's the thing. I'd been searching on the internet for awhile now and I managed to find out how to force my internet service provider to hand me a new different ISP ip address. Meanings, if you go to whatismyip.com, it should show you have a different IP address comparing to your old one. What I did was spoofing into another MAC address using the capability of my router. My router is a modem/router combination. It's a Motorola SBG901.

The problem is, once I get a new ip address, it would work for 10-15 minutes, and the connection will go down, and the weird thing is, I cannot even go into my router by entering 192.168.0.1 into the web browser. Shouldn't I be able to access it regardless if I have an internet connection or not? It will work again only if I unplug the router for like...15-30 seconds. Then it'll work for another 10-15 minutes and do the same thing again.

By switching back to my original MAC address, it would give me my original IP address and nothing goes wrong.

Can someone here shine a light on this issue I am having?
 
Why do you need to force the ISP to give you a new IP address?

Are you hardwired into router from pc or using wireless?
If you are using wireless and it drops your wifi connection (not just your internet connection to the modem) then you would not be able to access your router config.
 

philinux

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Sep 18, 2013
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I tried to get a new IP because it allow me to access a certain website. It doesn't matter if I connect to it through wireless or through cable. The internet and router access would just drop. But when I revert back to my original MAC address for my router, which it then assign me the original IP address, it works just fine. So right now, I don't know the reason to why I am having internet and wireless issue when I spoofed to another MAC address and another IP address.