The Gorse Fox has approached this subject before – but again he’s been impressed with how technology can shrink the world. However, this was in the midst of technological frustration. Perhaps he should explain.
Recently his Belkin ADSL-Modem/Router has been crashing every more frequently. Each time it seems to require a power-off and reboot. On one occasion today a message flashed up about an IP address conflict – so GF tried to track it down. Software could not seem to identify the culprit, so GF started shutting machines off in the West Sussex data centre. As he got to his phone (yes, that too is WiFi and internet enabled) it warbled. “Fring” had picked up a message from Cousteau-cub in Thailand who had started playing with Skype on her laptop. Debugging of the router dropped to the bottom of the queue as Skype was fired up and a call put through to Koh Lanta.
We had exceptional call quality and chatted to her and the Coventry Hobbit for over 30 minutes. We even had out camera switched on so that she could see us (even if we couldn’t see her as that old laptop did not have a camera). Even as a bit of a geek, the Gorse Fox still finds features such as Skype to be incredible and that fact that we can sit and chat with C-C/C-H in Thailand (for zero cost) is just brilliant.
Never got round to solving the router problem… but will never buy Belkin routers again. GF suspects that he will revert to Netgear next time he changes.
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Interestingly, I spent the weekend trying to track down a similar issue with my dad's D-Link. A false hope of a firmware upgrade article proved nothing, until it turned out the neighbours had bought a new router which was on the same channel.
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