my outrage
Anonymous
15 Aug 2019 18:17:24 UTC
Topic 219395
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Got up this morning around 7. Wanted to check on a couple of rebuild towers to see how they were doing. Thought I would use ssh to "get to them". no go. spent the next 4 hours trying out to figure out why I could not reach them or the Pi 4. All had worked yesterday. Today however I noticed that one PC could not connect to the uverse wifi gateway network. Another PC had a wifi addr issued outside of my address range. Wifi extenders worked fine but these had manually configured IP addrs. So I manually entered an IP adddr on one of these PCs that could not connect and it could establish a wifi connection once again. Seems like DHCP on the Uverse gateway went on vacation. Called Uverse support. 2 hours. The guy on the other end knew his stuff. Ran a bunch of tests. A major problem surfaced. Tomorrow I get my new Uverse gateway. I need a "puppy downer". I am writing this on the laptop with the manually entered IP addr.
This will be my 2nd gateway/modem in two years.
robl wrote:Got up this
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Were you able to put manual ip's in the other machines too so at least you are online temporarily?
mikey wrote:robl wrote:Got up
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Just on a couple of critical ones. I always keep hard copies of the uverse gateway configuration so setting up the new one should go reasonably well. I will have to look capturing the gateway configuration in a file so that I can reload from that file in the event I get another uverse gateway.
robl wrote:mikey wrote:robl
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If the "critical ones" don't need to be online 24/7 then you always plug and unplug the network cables using one pc at a time with the same settings. Essentially you would be using fixed ip addresses instead of dhcp ones.
Waiting on the new gateway
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Waiting on the new gateway replacement. It never arrived last Friday. I called and was told my order would be completed by the 27th. What!!!!! I just want a gateway router replacement. Was told I would get it on the 19th (today). Stay tuned.
robl wrote:Waiting on the new
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That's not very good customer service, I hope they will rebate the days you are without a 'working as advertised' one.
Now it not scheduled until
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Now its not scheduled until tomorrow --> tuesday. Just don't be late on a payment!!!
robl wrote:Now its not
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Holy cow!!!
it arrived at noon today. I
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it arrived at noon today. I was hoping that some network "names" would remain the same, but nooooooooooooooo.
I have been working since I received it but forgot to make some changes to the "new" names on some remote network cameras. I feel like I have been "rode hard and put up wet".
robl wrote:it arrived at noon
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So even if you did save the config file it wouldn't work next time? I'm glad it's there though!!
All work completed. Now it
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All work completed. Now its my turn to return the old gateway/modem.