Re: [Dorset] Failure of wireless connections again.

2021-03-12 Thread Victor Churchill
I'm reminded of a wireless NAS-cum-router I had some years back - possibly Belkin, I don't recall exactly - which brazenly featured a setting in its config that was a toggle labelled 'Self Healing'. The docs stated quite unashamedly that the thing might hang up from time to time, and if you set th

Re: [Dorset] Failure of wireless connections again.

2021-03-11 Thread Patrick Wigmore
On Thu, 11 Mar 2021 17:48:20 +, CA Wills wrote: > To my mind that means that the router must have had an > upgrade remotely. To my mind it seems more likely that router's Wi-Fi hardware, firmware or software has always contained the possibility of getting stuck in a partially non-working st

Re: [Dorset] Failure of wireless connections again.

2021-03-11 Thread PeterMerchant
On 11/03/2021 17:52, Keith Edmunds wrote: On Thu, 11 Mar 2021 17:48:20 +, ci...@cewland.uk said: Thinking of reporting this to Talktalk if it happens in 2 weeks time again; or am I wrong in thinking it's their fault? I think you're wrong in thinking that TalkTalk will care in the sligtest,

Re: [Dorset] Failure of wireless connections again.

2021-03-11 Thread Keith Edmunds
On Thu, 11 Mar 2021 17:48:20 +, ci...@cewland.uk said: > Thinking of reporting this to Talktalk if it happens in 2 weeks time > again; or am I wrong in thinking it's their fault? I think you're wrong in thinking that TalkTalk will care in the sligtest, to be honest. TalkTalk have a deserved

[Dorset] Failure of wireless connections again.

2021-03-11 Thread CA Wills
Hi All Further to my email earlier I've reset the router gateway and now have connection!  To my mind that means that the router must have had an upgrade remotely.  Why it should only affect my laptop I don't know. Thinking of reporting this to Talktalk if it happens in 2 weeks time again; o

[Dorset] Failure of wireless connections again.

2021-03-11 Thread CA Wills
Hi all This is strange; as reported some while ago I had problems with my wireless connection to Router.  A complete reset of the router and Thuderbird cured the problem: for a while! I have noticed that the problem reoccurs at 2 weekly instances and is usually on first start Thursday mornin