Yesterday was National Techies Day and I thought it was quite ironic that after mowing the lawn I go inside the house to find a message saying that the internet is out at my wife's farm house. Spectrum says the modem is working fine and that it must be the router.
The last time this happened was due to a series of brown-outs that seemed to corrupt the router, which had to be factory reset, which in turn caused the internet to stop working for them at that time. It took me nearly an hour to get everything back to the way it was, and so after I was done, I backed up the router configuration to a file on my wife's laptop.
A few times she even asked me what that icon was for. Well, I went over, used WPS to get connected to the router, restored the configuration, and 5 minutes later, everything was back to normal, prompting one of the boys to ask, "How did he do that?!?" "Magic", should have been my answer. A wizard never reveals his secrets. 8)
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You may want to get a UPS for that.
Yup. I had idiots, inc those at Netgear, try and tell me that Netgear router wasn't my problem and that it was a cable or something... yeah ok..... I keep loosing 2g but my 5g connection good or have 2g n no 5g on other models.... so took their advise and ignored it, got Linksys router and nothing else.... so far. My 2g and 5g are good.... since like 2011ish i think I had a great Netgeat router, R.I.P., lasted 15 yrs before issues came, now can't get em to last past warrenty, got pissed cause Netgear wouldn't honor their "Free replacement" policy.... NEVER again!! Need to change name to NetJoke.... had multiple people complain about the same issues with theirs.... so yeah, it was NOT cables....
Quote from: granz on Oct 05, 2024, 06:31 AMYou may want to get a UPS for that.
The issue happened at the Farm House where I don't live. I actually have at home FOUR, yes FOUR, UPS systems in place. See below.
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For my gaming PC I have a UPS which protects the CPU, both monitors and the USB hub.
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My development PC has a UPS which protects the CPU, both monitors, the USB hub, the network switch and the Automation Hub.
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Finally, the media rack (now in my wife's office) actually has TWO UPS systems. One (bottom left) protects the Printer, NAS Drive and backup USB drive (not shown as I was actually working on this today). The smaller one (on the right) protects the cable modem and router.
I just need one for my pc.... powering on is not fun....
Quote from: Chris Savage on Oct 06, 2024, 01:06 AMQuote from: granz on Oct 05, 2024, 06:31 AMYou may want to get a UPS for that.
The issue happened at the Farm House where I don't live. I actually have at home FOUR, yes FOUR, UPS systems in place. See below. ...
Actually, that's what I meant; a lot of farm land doesn't have good power. Getting a UPS for your in-laws could help prevent outages/frustration for them (and unscheduled trips for you. ;) )
It's that time again. 8)