Full Version: Cable Router hampering Outgoing Email?
From: Harvey only (HARVEY-ONLY) [#6]
31 Aug 2006
To: Stunt Engraver (DGL) [#5] 31 Aug 2006
When I left for the store Saturday AM all was fine with my DSL router. When I returned Monday afternoon, no Internet at all. Router said that there was communication to the Internet but nothing happened.
The router was powered down by two switches, but not disconnected from the phone lines during thunderstorms that weekend.
After a number of tests he walked me through, we did a complete reset and a setup of the login. One digit in the PPP changed from where it was to the new setup. It was probably a corruption of one bit in the EEPROM in the router from lightening.
I did not connect your problem with mine until you posted the fix. Wonder if it was lightening or something on the Internet that did it.
[My router now has new logon names and passwords instead of the default, I feel a bit safer from hackers.]
From: Stunt Engraver (DGL) [#7]
31 Aug 2006
To: Harvey only (HARVEY-ONLY) [#6] 31 Aug 2006
I'm not sure what caused the problems with the router. Haven't seen lightning in CA for a long time.
One thing we were told is important, is the sequence in powering up the modem and router. We were told to power up the modem, then the router, in that sequence.
From: Harvey only (HARVEY-ONLY) [#8]
31 Aug 2006
To: Stunt Engraver (DGL) [#7] 31 Aug 2006
From: basehorawards [#9]
1 Sep 2006
To: Harvey only (HARVEY-ONLY) [#6] 1 Sep 2006
Harvey,
Last summer I lost two motherboards to lightening. Both were turned on as we were not expecting a storm. We got home as it started and I said I should go turn them off and unplug. Too bad for me I turned on the TV to see how long it would last first. The lightening hit the cable line somewhere close by and went through the router to one computer and then through two hubs to get to the second one.
Now I unplug all the computers, laser. rotary, printer, etc when they forecast a storm. It was an expensive lesson.