BSC Technology Consulting

No posts lately, been busy traveling and working. Haven't had too much going on in the BSC world. I did end up replacing my home Linksys router/modem. It was constantly loosing connection to the cable input. This was dropping my Vonage router out of commission too, so my first thought was that the Vonage adapter had gone bad. I got a new Vonage adapter, and it soon started acting the same. I installed the Surfboard modem, thinking it might be the load from the cable connection coming in. Nope. I then installed a D-Link Draft N Wireless Gigabit Router along with the standard Motorola Surfboard. That seemed to do the trick. I had the surfboard sitting in a dustbin in my storage closet, and the D-Link router cost @ 80 dollars. I fought with this thing for 3-4 months and it was merely $80 dollars away (the answer). I thought that when Cisco bought Linksys that it would improve the shoddy performance and longevity. They are easy to setup and configure, but then they go belly up after a

My latest job was at the Fiore Winery here in Harford County, MD. It was a similar problem with the TECHLAB 2000 call, except that none of the WRT54G routers worked (no NATng or Wireless). The only way to get an Internet connection was plugging directly into the modem. After a myriad of troubleshooting techniques (updated firmware, reset to default firmware, swapped routers) it appears that the issue is with the ISP. The cable modem had recently been swapped out, and that is when everything started going south. Unfortunately, it was left up to Mike (the sales manager) to contact the ISP to verify a number of red letter items that were just now coming to light: There was supposed to be a static IP assigned, which does not seem to be the case. The connection was not allowed to be split at all, even when the router was setup for static IP. There was a second modem at another building on the property that did not work at all (no Internet activity). Of course, Linksys support wasn't a w

Ran across this issue at TechLab 2000 , a friends shop in Baltimore. After doing some exhaustive physical troubleshooting (checking the 16 port hub back end, looking for incorrectly wired cables, checking the Windows and McAfee firewall settings), I figured my best shot was to do more Internet research. This made absolutely no sense why the configuration would work for months, and then over the span of a week, peter out on him. Wireless connection worked to the Internet, and the LAN connected PCs could get to network shares, but not Internet. As a 'quick' fix for the day, I stuck Wireless G PCI card in the PC he used for processing online orders, and left a little frustrated after @ 4 hours of work. Later on that evening, I did some investigating and stumbled across this forum noting an almost identical problem. The Wireless and LAN connections worked fine for quite sometime, and then magically, just stopped working. I emailed the store owner and mentioned that this maybe the c