No access to certain sites through the router

[gee]

Just called my ISP and the tech support looked at the "path" I use both ways and didn't see a difference... He created a tech support and we'll see how that goes.

 

[RMerlin]

Could be geolocking from the remote site, or that the router's WAN IP is blacklisted as it was previously used by someone infected with malware.

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[gee]

That's pretty much what my ISP thinks as well, that the router WAN IP is blocked and by spoofing the mac I get an unblocked IP. They couldn't find anything else to explain this.

In about a week the DHCP lease will let go and give my router a new IP and I'll try again without the spoof.

Well sorry for wasting time on this!
Though I am glad I learned about spoofing mac to get a new IP adress, it could always be useful I guess.