On 05/27/11 05:03, Tim wrote: > If, and I mean if, being zapped was the cause, then that could well be > the nature of the fault. Damage to components that allow a charge to > build up that causes stuff ups. > > Faulty equipment can behave in weird ways. I've been servicing > electronics equipment for over twenty years, and it's quite hard to > relate broken equipment behaviour to how things are expected to work. > > That's possible. Or just a strange compatibility between yours and > theirs. Or you've firewalled things off, too much, and broken basic > networking. As this is a new development that started AFTER at&t flashed the modem with new firmware, I doubt it is faulty or zapped equipment. I don't believe in those kinds of co-incidences. AFA compatibility, I think we are reaching for a hare's horn :) > In the best of worlds, you'd reconfigure their modem/router to act as > just a bare-bones modem (bridge mode), so there's less processing > between modem and your own router. That modem cannot be configured as you describe. > Can you not replace it, yourself, with something equivalent? Does using > that ISP absolutely require their equipment? Obviously you have not used at&t uverse service :) Without THEIR modem nothing works. Uverse is a package: TV, Internet, Phone services. Decryption of the TV signal occurs in the modem, and is then sent out the same cable on a different frequency, which is then picked up by each TV's at&t' STB. The modem just has piggybacked into it the WIFI and ethernet card. > Can you break it, accidentally on purpose? ;-) I think the owner could ask them to replace it. but I do not believe that is the problem. Everything works except for the comm between the LAN clients. That is why I do not believe in the "zapped" theory. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines