[PLUG] Seeking opinion on new century link 1G install

[Bill Barry]

On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 11:56 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Mar 2017 10:03:12 -0800
> John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> dijo:
>
>>On Tue, 28 Feb 2017 20:50:01 -0800
>>wes <plug at the-wes.com> dijo:
>>
>>>You should remove the Netgear from the network. Once you do that, set
>>>your laptop back to 192.168.0.x and everything should work again.
>>
>>That is not clear to me. If I remove the Netgear from the network,
>>nothing will go anywhere. It has a patch cord to the new modem, and
>>patch cords to a 16-port and an 8-port switch, into which are connected
>>both computers, the HDHomeRun, and several printers. Looking at the
>>Admin page with Firefox it lists 'connected devices' as:
>>
>>       192.168.1.25     Brother desktop printer
>>       192.168.1.126   Laptop wireless
>>       192.168.1.136   Laptop eth1
>>       192.168.1.148   HDHomeRun
>>       192.168.1.100   Android phone
>
> Partial success: I succeeded in getting the Synology working by
> downloading and installing the .deb file for "Synology Assistant"
> provided on Synology's web site. This allowed me to reset its IP
> address, so now the router sees it. I still couldn't mount it until I
> remembered that I had entered it in /etc/fstab and, sure enough, the
> setting in fstab still had the . . 0 . address. I changed in fstab et
> voilà!
>
> Still can't get the desktop to see the internet. :(


You could at least temporarily set the network up on the desktop to
use DHCP and see if that fixes the problems. If you later want to
switch it back to static ip addresses you can use the  settings it
gets via DHCP as a guide.

Bill
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