sick router?

[celticdragonfly]

selenite and I lost our internet connection last night. It was (and still is) windy, and occasionally that's briefly taken it out before, and we had company and were busy, so didn't think much of it. This morning, after rebooting all the equipment, I still had none. That's annoying. After very long on hold, I got a cable modem support guy, who, miraculously, was polite and helpful.

What worked was when we disconnected the cable modem from the router, connected it directly to Agatha, and rebooted everything. Which presumably means our router is screwed up. So Agatha is connected, but Anvil, selenite's computer, is not.

So, now I'm going to go try to catch up on things. I miss anything interesting?

Comments

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

The same router worked just fine yesterday with the same service. :-(

[aeddie.livejournal.com]

Then it probably is the router unless there were power spikes.

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

No power spikes that I noticed. But it has been windy, and that could have done it. What are you thinking that the power spike would have done if not something to the router?

[aeddie.livejournal.com]

It might not have totally fried the router but messed up it's settings. Do you remember if you had to change any settings in the router when you first set it up or did you just plugged it in?

If you just plugged it in, then the router is most likely toast. If you had to change settings then you may be able to reset it to the configuration that was used previoulsy.