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Oh no! I had all the new equipment installed and happy and was just about to go back to cleaing up when Andrea called me to tell me that she had lost her connection. I investigated and found that the whole network was down and the router was showing the red diag light that it occasionally likes to light up.

As usual when it does that, I powered it down, gave it ten, and powered it back up. This time, unlike the others, the diag light stayed on. I reset it to factory defaults, tried taking out the VoIP router and plugging it directly into the cable modem, and then tried plugging it in with no ethernet connections to it. No change.

I am trying to decide whether this was related to the new hardware or not. It was an old router, second-hand from posicat (so who knows what he's done to it *grins*), and has been running on a Radio Shack power supply for about three years now, so I suppose it's time was near. Still, that's a pretty big coincidence, and that disturbs me.

I guess there's not much I can do though. I'm buying a router on the way home tomorrow, so I know where my quarterly bonus is going. I'm looking at this one, since it's got the double speed 802.11g and is supposedly available at the Best Buy near where I work. I guess I finally have an excuse to the the wireless I've been wanting. Does anyone have any fast suggestions or comments before I go buy the thing tomorrow?

In the meantime, I plugged my server straight into the VoIP router so I at least have my web and email server going.