Router issue, (Computer related). Has this ever happened to you.

[Kevin Palmer]

First, I am up and running, but, took a little to figure it out.



I have four computers at home, all on line either wired director wireless.



Wife tells me none can connect to the net. Figure it must be the main line, router or cable modem.



However, I get home, plug n my laptop and it finds the signal just like normal. I right click on it to ensure it is my signal, not the neighbors.



So, mine works and none of the other four do.



Now, for mine to work the signal is going thru the cable modem, to a wired router, to a wireless router and then to me. So this tells me all parts are working.



Everything is plugged in.



Ended up being two bad ports on my wired router. I switch to the other ports as well as ran the third and forth wire from my wireless router and all is perfect. Just thought it was kind of weird to loose two of four ports.



Hmmm..

 

[Thomas Rogers]

Yup, it happens. I have a Linksys go to the point that all the hard-wired ports were toast but wireless worked. Just yesterday at work the switch I was using for 4 years went belly up, all ports shot.



It happens.

 

[Curt NA]

Happened to me as well. 1 out of the 4 hardwire ports on the router stopped working. Wireless was okay. I bought a cheap network hub off of eBay to connect to one of the working ports in order to split off and have the number of ports I needed.

 

[Kevin Palmer]

I really don't need the wired router anymore as I have a "normal" firewall now. Before I had to have it to fulfill a requirement of the company.



So, no real loss as I have my wireless one. Good learning experience, at least I had a back-up.

 

[Chris Whitman]

Yep... being in the industry, this happens all the time.

Always nice to have a backup sitting around or spare ports as a just in case!



Cheers

Whit