[LUNI] Strange wireless AP issue

[Michael Labowicz]

On 10/31/06, Gerald Guglielmo <gug at fnal.gov> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>     Possibly a problem with the router itself? I had a D-Link router
> hooked up to a cable modem for a couple of years with few problems. Then
> I started noticing once in a while the internal network would still work
> but connecting to the external network would fail. Power cycling the
> cable box would sometimes resolve the problem and sometimes power
> cycling the router instead would be needed. Over time this became more
> frequent and I could find no good way with that setup to isolate the
> problem to the cable company side, the cable modem or the router. I did
> try various arrangements but it was at the point of having to power
> cycle devices multiple times before it would work. The only complaint I
> would see from the router was a timeout on trying to renew the DHCP
> lease. Anyway when this reached the point of being an issue every day, I
> went and bought a new router (same basic one) configured it like the old
> one, and swapped it in. Haven't had to power cycle anything since then
> (over six weeks), so I guessed right that the issue was the
> communication between the router and the cable modem and replacing what
> I could before calling the cable company.
>     Barring a hardware problem developing, it would be good to know if
> this happens to a connection while you are actively using it
> (downloading a large file for example), or only to connections with no
> activity for a while.
>
>
Hi, just wanted to let everyone know that power cycling the router solved
the problem.  Next time I'll try that first.  Who would have thought that
turning it off and on again would work!

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Michael Labowicz
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