On Jan 4, 2006, at 5:15 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 3:28 PM -0600 01/04/2006, Tom Ethen wrote:
I have WIFI DSL from a radio on my roof to a radio on a tower about
three
miles away. My roof radio has a modem, with a Ethernet port that then
goes
to my router (4 port) and then to my Macs.
Sometimes the router will not allow me to connect at all to anything,
e-mail
or browser connection, but after some time or re booting the router
and
modem I can connect. Some times I will try to access a web page and
it will
do nothing, but if I refresh the page I get instant access.
Sometimes I have to boot both the modem and router to gain access and
just
using the modem does work bypassing the router.
I checked my settings on the router and they seem to be OK.
Ok.
You need to dig deeper to determine exactly what is failing and where.
Take it step by step, hop by hop.
Verify that you have basic IP connectivity between your Mac and your
Router by pinging the router. If that works, move one hop beyond --
ping your DSL service gateway. Also use traceroute (which is actually
a successive series of pings) to trace a few more hops farther -- to
see where things fail. Paste the results here if you want, for us to
examine.
Once you see that you have basic IP connectivity out into the
internet, you need to make sure you have a usable Domain Name Service.
DNS is the gizmo that translates name, like www.google.com, to IP
addresses. Try some raw lookups (from with the Network Utility). If
they fail, trace to your assigned DNS. Try also name servers like
4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2. Those are Verizon's; quite reliable.
Once you have reliable DNS, start poking out father - to your email
server or a destination web server...
From your descriptions... My feeling is that you'll find intermittant
or no connectivity thru that radio hop. If that's the case, you'll
need to talk to your ISP to have them fix it.
HTH,
- Dan.
And after you poke father, don't forget to ping mother. Sorry Dan,
couldn't resist. Excellent advice as usual.
Just a message from Doug...
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