Sorry for the Downtime
I’m sorry about the recent downtime for the blog this week. I was adding more internet service connections. Everything seemed to be working just fine for two days before the connection that the blog sits on took a dive into 5% usefulness. I worked with the provider for about 4 hours and we couldn’t solve it. They dispatched a tech this morning and he was able to augment what the prior tech had done, fix few issues at the tap and scheduled some updates to the signaling for this area later today – at least that’s what I heard. Whether any of that is true will be seen later, right?
Prior Installer
The guy who installed the new connection seemed to know what he was doing too and spent a few hours out here running a new line and testing connections. Everything seemed to work when he left. The tech here today said the 2nd line which was supposed to be dedicated to my networking room wasn’t even connected to the correct coax from the street. I don’t know if that is true or not, but I do know that both speed tests and the upstream/downstream signal numbers for both connections are in the center of “good” now.
In a week, I’ll believe the issue has been solved. Right now, I’m not certain who to believe the first guy or the second guy. The first tech did some nice work attaching a new cable to the house, grounding it and creating a nice little patch to the house wiring.
Remaining Issues
Now if I could just get the static IPs back which were wiped out on Thursday and finally have someone tell me the accurate limitations for passwords that the gateway router can handle, that would be great. I know what the manual says the router password can be; 32-characters long with letters and numbers. Those specifications don’t seem to be truthful, since my last password reset was 30 characters only letters and numbers. What’s worse is the gateway accepts the new password, even one that doesn’t meet those specifications, but immediately logging in with the new credentials fails. This is the 2nd time I’m having the gateway password reset today. I really hope they will call me and let me know the true limitations.
Future – Wiring Closet
At some point, I’ll probably put in a wiring closet within 5 feet of the telephone and cable demarcation point outside. From there, it will be CAT6 cable to every room in the house with some rooms getting multiple CAT6 cabling to keep work and home networks physically separate. WiFi just doesn’t cut it here.
