Whatever the case, if someone has the same issue, we need to tell them to give up, sit, and just stare at the screen for a while...and a miracle will occur!!!
Jeffery On Jan 27, 2011, at 11:39 AM, John Sessoms wrote: > From: Jeffery Smith >> It was an odd thing that seemed to fix it. I reset both router and >> modem about 10 times, in different orders, to no avail. The router >> was working, but would not receive info from the modem. I finally >> just gave up and sat in the living room with a laptop on my lap and >> starting watching TV. Five minutes later, my blank internet screen >> had a popup that said "Do you want to connect to *&%$@&^%&*" (some >> sort of jibberish). I wasn't about to choose "no", so I clicked on >> OK. And CNN.com popped up on my laptop. Once my laptop started >> working, I went to the desktop and it started working as well. >> Spooky, but there was a delay during which nothing worked, and then >> it just seemed to wake up. >> >> Jeffery > > Could be some kind of timer built into the firmware that causes the router to > release the old IP address and get a new one on its own if it can't connect. > Resetting the router might not purge the old IP address. > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1204 / Virus Database: 1435/3405 - Release Date: 01/26/11 > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
