Most likely a mis-match of the authentication certificates, which age out and are replaced dynamically. There are ways to force the refresh.
Hard to say based on your description, but the important thing is that it's all working now. Once things work, they tend to stay working. :-) Godfrey On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 5:26 AM, Jeffery Smith <jsmith...@gmail.com> wrote: > It was an odd thing that seemed to fix it. I reset both router and modem > about 10 times, in different orders, to no avail. The router was working, but > would not receive info from the modem. I finally just gave up and sat in the > living room with a laptop on my lap and starting watching TV. Five minutes > later, my blank internet screen had a popup that said "Do you want to connect > to *&%$@&^%&*" (some sort of jibberish). I wasn't about to choose "no", so I > clicked on OK. And CNN.com popped up on my laptop. Once my laptop started > working, I went to the desktop and it started working as well. Spooky, but > there was a delay during which nothing worked, and then it just seemed to > wake up. > > Jeffery > > > On Jan 26, 2011, at 9:39 PM, John Sessoms wrote: > >> From: Jeffery Smith >>> I just got switched from AT&T to Cox Internet service. They gave me a >>> non-WiFi modem, so I tried to connect it up with one of my three >>> previous Wi-Fi routers (Belkin, Apple, Cisco), and could get all >>> three of the WiFi routers to work but not one of them will attach me >>> to the Internet (through wireless or through an ethernet wire from >>> the back). If I go directly from the back of the Cox modem to my Mac, >>> the internet comes up. For some reason, my WiFi routers cannot seem >>> to get the Internet signal from the modem. I tried 4 different >>> ethernet wires (between modem and router) just to make sure that >>> wasn't the problem. And I did make sure that the modem was connected >>> to the right ethernet connection (ingoing, not outgoing). >>> >>> Is there something obvious that I'm missing here? All three routers >>> do make a connection with my computers, but no Internet signal is >>> detected. >>> >> >> Sounds like the routers may still have old IP addresses from whatever ISPs >> they were last connected to. It may be as simple as telling the router to >> release its IP and get a new one from Cox. >> >> >> >> ----- >> No virus found in this message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 10.0.1202 / Virus Database: 1435/3403 - Release Date: 01/25/11 >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
