Thanks for your quick reply. It's an 'always on' connection with a
static ip. So, I need to get the
Mac address of the Wimax modem from the ISP ?
Sounds simple enough and worth a try .. Will let u know how it goes
Duly noted.
You don't need to get the MAC address or anything from the ISP - under normal circumstances, the ISP authenticates against your computer's MAC ID when you plug your computer in, so presumably when you put the
router there instead of your computer, the ISP will assume that the router is a computer and so long as it stays connected, then anything that connects to your router will be able to use the connection.
You will however, need to configure the IP in the router's settings in the same way that you do on your PC.
How and whether it eventually ends up working remains to be seen, because most consumer routers aren't that intelligent: the router might try to send traffic to it's WAN port (that is, the
ADSL port), because that's what it's designed to do - only to find that there is no ADSL connection - and if it does that and fails to see the internet connection as being available on one of it's LAN ports, then this configuration may not work.
The best you can do for now is try it out and see how it goes: the main thing I think you will need to do is to put your static IP in the "default gateway" field of the DHCP settings.