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by James Robertson.
Original Post: Back on the air
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Well, I'm finally back online. My network dropped before I got up this morning - I went through the whole "unplug the cable modem, unplug the router, reverse" routine - no dice. Called Comcast, and to my initial surprise, it wasn't them - my router had gone wonky. I've been having some flakiness with it of late, and I guess this explains that. So, I ran down the road to a local PC shop, hoping to get a replacement. The owner had decided to take his lunch break at that point, I guess - his sign said "open", but the door was locked. Great, I had to run all the way into Columbia proper to the CompUSA store. I picked up a nice little NetGear b/g router (it also claims to support the non-standard 108 mbs thing, but I don't have that). Set it up, bing, everything came right back up. I had to go in and change the password and the default IP range (I have a couple of things on the net with static IP addresses, and the default 192 range used to have issues with the Cincom VPN). In any event, I've got connectivity back. Now I need some lunch...
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