So I got the new homehub, and plugged it in, and astonishing things happened. The PC downstairs connected – and it got an IP address. All the machines could see each other. It was like magic pixie dust had been sprinkled all over my wireless connections.
I was, I must admit, astonished. It all seemed to work.
I left them on. this morning I came down and y’know what? They were all still saying “we’re connected, happy little networked computers”. Popped ’em into Standby, went to work.
Came home from work, pull them out of standby, as usual the network is defunked. Kill and restart network drivers and lo, connectivity. Switch off hub, plug in hub phone. Configure for broadband telephony. SPLUTCH. Sans network. Fiddle for a bit. Connect…oh no, ‘s gone again. Reboot router. Connectivity! All is well! La la la l. Oh. Gone again.
Reset router to factory defaults. Still nada. Reboot. Connectivity appears to be back. I want to blame the home hub phone, but I’m not certain enough that it is the cause. I have no idea what is the cause anymore, to be honest. But I wish the cause would make itself clearly known to me, because it’s beginning to drive me nuts.
