[Peter_]

Originally Posted by zerolight

Thanks. I'll see what happens without the router in place. Do VM do anything with MAC Address on hardware other than the modem. I seem to recall they did stuff once upon a time with only so many MAC address swaps in a month - not that I've been changing my router much, but just wondering if it has issues with the MAC addresses on my routers.

You usually lose the connection if you try to use more than 4 different pieces of hardware within 24 hours that is why a lot of people use routers as can swap and change all day.