On Nov 24, 2010, at 10:42 , Lee Larson wrote:

> On Nov 24, 2010, at 8:31 AM, Bill Rising wrote:
> 
>> When I went to the Apple discussion boards, someone had just posted the same 
>> list of symptoms, oddly enough all starting at roughly the same time (noon 
>> yeseterday). He tried swapping in an older router and found the same 
>> problems, and hence was going to bother the ISP for a new modem. I tried 
>> unplugging the modem and router overnight, and magically, everything is 
>> working this morning.
>> 
>> I don't have a clue what is going on, but at least things are (temporarily) 
>> OK now.
> 
> 
> I'd guess a DHCP problem. Perhaps unplugging it overnight forced it to renew 
> the DHCP lease.

That could be what it was. The reason I let it sit so long unplugged was 
because there were some posters on the Apple discussions who claimed that some 
ISPs can need 5 hours to properly change DHCP leases. In any case, I now have 
another tool in my repair kit: unplug overnight. 

Cheers,

Bill

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