[Ham-Computers] Dynamic IP's and IP-blocked download sites

[Jerry K]

Because I live in the boonies, I'm a Direcway 2-way satellite broadband
subscriber.

For a long time, I've used the mods.dk website to download mods and ham
manuals. It's a great ham radio mods and documentation site, probably the
best, but for obvious reasons has an automatically applied 2 manual per day
limit, which is apparently tracked by registering your IP address when you
download anything, and applying a 24-hour timer against that IP after you
have done two downloads. (some of you already see the problem, don't you.
Ha.) My old Direcway modem (a stacked pair for xmit/rec, running off a USB
port using Windows ICS) worked fine using mods.dk, but with no ethernet
connection on it, was naturally slow on the local side and was a pain to
integrate with my feeble little home network.

Enter Direcway's new modem upgrade, which I recently installed. It's more in
line with most DSL modems, in that it runs DHCP on the broadband side, and
has sort of a basic router built into the local side, with NAT, etc. The
modem talks to the NOC's router on a permanently assigned IP address. Of
course, on the user side it uses the standard 192.168.0.1 address. It's
functioning and look are very much like the 2-Wire modems I've seen in the
past.  It works quite well (much more reliable and faster than the old
setup), and I am using it to feed a little Netgear router, which in turn
takes care of my three machines.

The problem:  Since I did this modem upgrade, I can't use mods.dk at all. As
soon as I click on a manual to download, I'm told I have exceeded my limit
for the day, and to come back tomorrow. Of course, tomorrow it's the same
story. It appears that all of Direcway's million or two subscribers are
funneled through the same IP to get to mods.dk, and therefore mods.dk thinks
all several million of us are using the same computer.

I don't want to pay for Direcway's very expensive static IP service just to
get around this problem. I'm already paying three times what most DSL users
pay for dynamic service, but that's the price for the pleasures of rural
living, I guess. So, the question is am I misunderstanding this problem, or
am I just screwed, along with a zillion other DHCP users? Is there a simple
"duh" fix for this?  I'm essentially running two routers in tandem, I
suppose. Will replacing the Netgear with a simple hub help?

All advice is appreciated, even if it makes my face red to hear what I might
be doing wrong here. :-)

73, Jerry W5KP