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A cautionary note on cloning mac addresses- If you don this and you try to communicate over the network with any cloned mac computer the network will go through something like this:

You type (for example) the IP address for one of the cloned computers, say 192.168.0.3. The network will broadcast "who has 192.168.0.3?" Because TWO computers have the same mac, BOTH will answer with their mac address, which is the same. The network will become confused and will not be able to connect you to either because of the conflict. It will NOT tell you what the problem is, it will just hang, and hang, finally timing out. This will happen especially if you try to network one cloned computer to the other one.

The same problem can happen if you allow Smartbro to give the SAME IP address to 2 cloned mad computers. Smartbro will expect ONE computer to answer, but it will get TWO answers. This can cause their network to become seriously confused, maybe even thinking it has been hacked by another user, cloning your mac.

I have been through all of this stuff already. I finally spoke to an engineer from smart, and he traced the problem to the duplicate mac address. He kept saying, "hmmm... this is weird... I see 2 replies to everything the smart network transmits...do you have more than one computer connected?" I played dumb, not wanting him to know that I cloned a mac. I told him it must be a smart network problem.

After that, I hooked up a router to my smartbro cable. I changed the mac addresses back to normal on both my computers. Now, smartbro sees ONLY the router mac address. I made sure that the router firewall was activated so that my 2 computer mac addresses didn't come through to the smartbro network, because that would cause the network to make me login to the portal each time I switched computers.

The same goes for routers. If you are using more than one router, make sure you don't clone the macs. Just hook the 2nd router into the output of the 1st as if it were just another computer.

Right now I'm using 4 computers on my smartbro connection, but it only sees the one mac address of my router. I can even access my canopy through my router, although the installer made all the settings correct so I didn't have to change anything

Correct! so there's no point in cloning MAC Addresses, unless only one pc at a time is surfing the net. Anyway there's no point in cloning MAC Addresses anymore cause basestations shall be updated which would require your Canopy Mac address as the identifier in the network and no longer your PCMAC.

Is this legal ?

Of course, If I'm an ordinary person out there I can't do anything with ur service reference number. But im not just an ordinary person its 100% legal, ill just run through over a series of diagnostic which includes the base station diagnostic itself, and even an end to end diagnostic from bts to your pc. then let's see what i can do.

This is so slow

COuld someone help me I already did all the tweakings I found here and from other websites

kindly message me your service reference number and i'll try to figure out what's wrong with it.

my smartbro connection is very slowwwwwwww........ ..and i cant do anything about it...

sometimes there are factors that no matter what you do on your end won't have an effect at all!  One major factor is the default bandwidth allocation of the base station to where you are homed. Base station bandwidth may range (depending on location/community classification) from 1.8mbps (slowest) to around 20mbps (im not sure of this) then you divide it to the total number of subscribers homed in that basestation (assuming everyone is online)

Guys I do not suggest that you clone MAC Address in order for you to have an internet connection. Cloning MAC address would result to DHCP giving both PC the same IP Address, it would result to intermittent connection both for the legit and illegal sub. That is not good at all specially for the paying sub cause you almost can't surf at all!

there's this thing which you convert your Canopy mac to ip-address, each segment of hex values corresponds to the IP of your canopy, then you just have to segment your PC's IP to match the segment of your Canopy