Bill, Under Network Preferences, clicking on "Airport" using the tab TCP/IP there is a button "Renew DHCP Lease", would this do the same thing as leaving it unplugged all night, or is the reset needed with the modem rather than the Airport Router?
John On Nov 24, 2010, at 10:53 AM, Bill Rising wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
