Symptoms: Your Linksys (or potentially any other consumer-grade router) will not obtain an IP address via DHCP from your ISP’s DSL gateway/router. The status of the WAN interface shows 0.0.0.0 as the IP address or you receive an error message while trying to renew the address. Problem: Both devices are likely on the same subnet. …
Aug
18
Setting Up Your Static IPs With AT&T DSL
Setting up a range of static IP addresses from AT&T DSL can be a daunting task if you are used to Cox or other ISPs that simply supply you with an IP address to punch into the WAN settings of your router. AT&T* (Bellsouth, Yahoo!, SBC), on the other hand, will provide you with an …
Aug
16
AT&T DSL Intermittent Loss of Sync
Symptoms: A business has AT&T DSL and has intermittent problems with their internet randomly going down. Usually it is fixed by unplugging/plugging in the modem, but the problem happens again in a week or so. You call AT&T and there appear to be no problems with the line or profile. Problem (at least the way …