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| Router playing up? |
| Friday, May 4, 2007 |
Some computers are required to run all day every day - or as the Americans say, “24/7”. Most of these computers are servers (the ones that form the Internet) and don’t run the domestic versions of Windows. In fact most of them don’t run Microsoft at all, they run Unix/Linux.
That’s because the domestic versions of Windows won’t run 24, let alone 24/7, without needing a reboot to clear accumulated errors from memory and start afresh.
Even servers will eventually need a reboot - there are always bugs that will cause problems to accumulate until they start misbehaving.
Routers are computers too, and although much simpler, they also need a reboot now and again.
Domestic Wireless Modem Routers are sometimes left on permanently, but in my experience they will eventually start playing up. And a reboot normally sorts them out.
The best way to keep them going is just to switch them off at night (mine is on a time switch). When they boot up in the morning they are refreshed and ready to face another day!
Sometimes Routers can be affected by electrical storms or other factors that cause spikes through the mains supply. They only have cheap and basic power supplies which can’t stop spikes like the bigger PC PSUs can.
The all powerful IT solution of “Have you tried switching it off then switching it on again?” definitely applies to Domestic Wireless Modem Routers.
Sometimes, if that doesn’t work, they can be sorted out by resetting to factory defaults (it’s one of the options in the Router control settings). But before you do that make sure that you write down the settings that you will need to reinstate (ADSL user name & password, wireless channel and encryption settings).
I had one the other day that was connected to one PC wirelessly but wouldn’t connect to any others wirelessly.
Resetting to factory defaults sorted it out.
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Laptop won’t connect to home Wireless Network
My friend’s daughter had a new Dell laptop to take to University.
Her daughter had it set up by a new student friend to connect to the University wireless network. But when she brought the laptop home the daughter couldn’t get it to connect to her family’s wireless router.
I tried all the obvious things but couldn’t get the router to allocate an IP address to the laptop. Even though there was another laptop in the same house that was connected quite happily to the router! I thought it might be a weird fault with the router that I had never come across before.
But it wasn’t - when I rebooted the laptop I noticed a “splash screen” saying Odyssey during startup. Although I could not find an Odyssey entry in All Programs I eventually noticed an Odyssey Icon on the desktop. And when I clicked on it I discovered Odyssey Access Client.
This is a piece of software (from Juniper Networks) that had been put on by the friend at University to enable a connection to the University servers. It is an extra layer of software on top of the normal wireless connection software. And it was stopping the connection to the home network.
All I had to do to get the thing to connect was to set up a new “home” connection within the Odyssey Access Client, and put in the router’s security key.
I just wonder how many other “freshers” will have trouble connecting their laptops to their home wireless networks?Labels: PC Tips N Tricks and Tweaks |
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