Spent two days in the office tracking down why there was no internet access. It stopped at 9:30 Saturday night. Our Netgear router was about 5 years old. Newer ones have more LED indicators but looking at this older one it seemed OK. Replacing components one at a time, I swapped out the phone cable then the ADSL splitter then tested the phone line by sending a fax. So by the end of Sunday it was time to replace the router. It was the middle of Monday by the time I sourced and bought a new one.
We have generally used Netgear for our business. The DGN2200 had a rope style LED indicating activity back in the exchange as well as the internet activity LED. So straight away I could see progress because the rope LED was lit but the internet was still off. Router TIP take screen shots of all relevant configuration pages before your router dies. By the time I got onto the service provider for the required username and password and all other required settings another day had passed. At least the grey matter is still ticking over in retirement.
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