Hello -
I am a fairly technically oriented person, but very new to networking. I have a few issues I thought I'd seek some guidance on.
By far the most irritating issue is that occasionally, my wireless signal simply no longer works. I never am able to figure out what the real problem is, but whatever it is, it goes away if I unplug my routers and plug them back in after a few seconds. Needless to say, this is particularly troubling if it happens when I am not at home to unplug / plug back in the routers.
Another thing that has happened lately is that the signal drops momentarily and then comes back on its own. This one is not a huge deal, but I work at home via a VPN connection and it breaks that connection, so it's a bit annoying.
Finally, something that has been happening just lately is that I am getting IP address conflicts. I do not know how to properly prevent these from happening. I tried "hard-wiring" each machine its own IP address, but that made the machines not be able to get on the network at all!
Here's my setup:
-Signal comes in the house from ISP and into Linksys' Vonage router -Vonage router has one "machine" on it (the Linksys wifi router) -Linksys 54G Wifi router has three machines accessing it wirelessly, and one machine accessing it via a wired connection (two of the three wifi machines have the linksys wifi reciever USB device, the other (laptop) has a Netgear wifi card).
I don't know what other info to provide. I know this is sparse, but please ask questions and I will answer them to the best of my ability.
Thanks in advance -
Brian McCabe