LOL, too funny!
I know on cable the cable co spends a lot of time
sending DHCP, ARP, and other
packets to systems that already have what they need.
Guess that's part of what
the hardware firewall is for!
Brian Weeden wrote:
Problem solved - user stupidity instead of a network
problem. Turn
Problem solved - user stupidity instead of a network problem. Turn
out that routers tend to not work when you turn off the light and
outlet they are connected to when exiting the room. And of course
when you re-enter the room and turn the lights back on they start
working again.
I did hook up
Well after just praising the Airport Extreme I am having some
problems, although I think they stem from the crappy RoadRunner cable
connection. I am staying at my parent's place for a couple days and
figured I would just plug in my Airport Extreme into their cable modem
and have wireless while we
Did you do a site survey to see if there was another
WAP nearby? Maybe a 2.4GHz
cordless phone?
If the wired ports work I'm guessing you power cycled
the modem after you
switched the MAC of the interface it was plugged into.
So no problem with the
wired connects, just wireless?
Brian Weeden
Can anyone think of something on the RoadRunner network that would be
causing it to freak out?
Brian Weeden
If you can use a wired port and it works fine? then it sounds more
like something is interfering with the wireless signal rather then
something to do with the ISP.
