network connection
Apr. 3rd, 2002 05:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellioLast night our home network connection was dead, but I didn't have a lot of time to investigate it. (I tried all the simple stuff.) This morning it was still dead. I just tried pinging us from work and it appears it's still dead. Grumble. This means I have to start taking things apart... (Yes, I have a firewall and thus won't answer pings. But I should get a rejection notice, not silence, if the connection is there.)
The modem activity light flickers occasionally, but I don't know if that really means anything. The chain is: modem to linksys box to router box(es) to desktop machines. None of the machines that are presently network-aware can see the internet, though I can see the file server. (Dani can't, but his machine is flaky that way so that's inconclusive.) Presumably this means the problem is at or beyond the modem, but I know from past experience that Verizon won't talk to me if I admit to the real wiring. They want the modem to be plugged into a single machine and they'll want me to mess around with my TCP/IP settings even though the problem is not there. Bah. I've got to improve my mental model of all things Windows so I can fake my half of that conversation. :-)
Well, homeward to see if there are any quick fixes before heading out to D&D.
The modem activity light flickers occasionally, but I don't know if that really means anything. The chain is: modem to linksys box to router box(es) to desktop machines. None of the machines that are presently network-aware can see the internet, though I can see the file server. (Dani can't, but his machine is flaky that way so that's inconclusive.) Presumably this means the problem is at or beyond the modem, but I know from past experience that Verizon won't talk to me if I admit to the real wiring. They want the modem to be plugged into a single machine and they'll want me to mess around with my TCP/IP settings even though the problem is not there. Bah. I've got to improve my mental model of all things Windows so I can fake my half of that conversation. :-)
Well, homeward to see if there are any quick fixes before heading out to D&D.
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Date: 2002-04-03 10:27 pm (UTC)Good luck getting it fixed.