At 3:01 PM -0500 9/8/2008, Ione Smith wrote: >the base station decided all by itself that the IP address was valid >after all! It is now working perfectly. > >So -- if you're trying to set one of these things up, don't give up >if it fails at first. Just let it stew in its own juices for awhile >-- this took roughly 5 or 10 minutes from the first error message to >final connection. > >And of course I have to ask -- why would it do this??
The base station was trying to obtain a valid DHCP Lease (IP address, mask, etc) from Charter's DHCP servers. When it takes more than a few seconds, the reasons are usually administrative. It could be that Charter's servers are set to not dole out more than one lease per account. If that's the case, then you had to wait until the old lease timed-out or expired. Or it could be that while you were on hold, someone did the necessaries to manually release that old lease... FWIW, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's G-Books list, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
