Re: Port 110 re-visited.
From: BobC (nospam_at_nospam.here)
Date: 02/18/04
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Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 04:48:40 GMT
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 20:26:05 -0800, wizbang wrote:
> Greetings, Many thanks to Marc Reynolds (MSFT) for your response to an
> earlier post, however, I am still floundering. I did not know if
> replying to my original post would get any response.
>
> I apologize for my lack of knowledge in the proper protcols for these
> news groups.
>
> A little background: At approx 4:00 PM I reply to several e-mail
> messages everything is working fine.
>
> I go on to other stuff. At 4:30 a coworker says he can't connect to the
> internet. I find that I can't either. It took a while to diagnose that
> the router had gone south we lost connectivity with all of the lights
> were blinking normally. (the router has seen better times)
>
> The procedure I followed was to isolate the components and found that
> the linksys indeed had quit working properly. To get connectivity back I
> simply ran a cat5 cable from the cable modem directly to the hub
> (bypassing the router) and rebooted the machines. The machines all use a
> dynamic lookup. As soon as the machines came up we were able to browse
> the internet using the standard browsers IE and Opera (that I use)
>
You can not just replace a router with a hub. Your ISP likely only gives
you one ip address. So whichever of the computers you boot first will get
that address and the other one will not get on the Internet. Replace the
hub with a new router.
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