More pulling the wires, to see where they go
Several hours into the spaghetti of the home network and my success level is still pinned on “failure”. However, I did learn a few things that may mean a solutionis just hours away. Such the life.
You see, around here things continue to grow. Or mutate. All in response to new stuff forced to coexist with old stuff. As near as I can tell, I now own two wireless routers, five (or more) switches, a print server, several wired machines, a whole bunch more wireless… and a potential for a nervous breakdown on anyone else’s dime. Some of those switches were unknown before this evening…
Early last week, the weather station feed “disappeared” from my website. Usually, a reboot of that old machine I purchased at the surplus store and the wind begins to blow. Not this time. Another machine in the same room also went into a disconnected funk. Move to infrastructure. Except that I haven’t found the problem. Machines can ping one another, but the gateway is invisible. It may come down to one wire; pulling on one end and then running downstairs to see if the other end moved is great for the cardio system, but it sure eats up time.
In the real world, we hide the wires away from the users. Nothing about aesthetics and everything about keeping things unchanged. That’s what I miss, as I sit around home in my confort clothes. At least the wifi is solid – and I intend to play with that part, too. Crazy man loose!
Our little email glitch yesterday has us on a couple of blacklists. Hope that this too, shall pass.
