Santilli
Hairy Aussie
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Today the new JetDirect 615N came in. It's identical to the 600 and 610, but has more memory on the card, according to the HP website.
It installed, said it was ready, but, I couldn't get it to hold an IP address consistently.
At first I thought the Modem might be set to limit connected devices to one, but, after I thought about it, that's all that was connected, a switch.
I seem to be able to get three devices to work, but no more. So, I decided to reconfigure the network. I have two gigabyte connections for each computer, so I put the switch on the two computers and the printer. Now it works fine, and 7 configures to use my 4000N on both computers.
I used the old Linksys 54G as the router, and connected both computers to that, along with the HTPC by wireless.
I'm getting 48Mbps on the beast, about 30 on the server, and 12-14 on the wireless.
Worthless tech support:
Memory something linked me to the HP website. No joy.
Called HP, and they told me that the 615N wouldn't work with my printer. I should be using the 600 or 610N. I guess the extra memory for firmware is supposed to make it not work, even though it's working fine and is the same card, other then memory?
Astound's guys told me that there was no webrowser baseed access to the Motorola modem, even though I WATCHED, and entered information when the tech guy came out to use my computer and set some stuff up awhile back. Asked for the manager, and, he was the one that pointed me to the switch setup as being the problem, and he was right. Overall a long day. I think I may go buy the E4200, since costco has them on sale...
It installed, said it was ready, but, I couldn't get it to hold an IP address consistently.
At first I thought the Modem might be set to limit connected devices to one, but, after I thought about it, that's all that was connected, a switch.
I seem to be able to get three devices to work, but no more. So, I decided to reconfigure the network. I have two gigabyte connections for each computer, so I put the switch on the two computers and the printer. Now it works fine, and 7 configures to use my 4000N on both computers.
I used the old Linksys 54G as the router, and connected both computers to that, along with the HTPC by wireless.
I'm getting 48Mbps on the beast, about 30 on the server, and 12-14 on the wireless.
Worthless tech support:
Memory something linked me to the HP website. No joy.
Called HP, and they told me that the 615N wouldn't work with my printer. I should be using the 600 or 610N. I guess the extra memory for firmware is supposed to make it not work, even though it's working fine and is the same card, other then memory?
Astound's guys told me that there was no webrowser baseed access to the Motorola modem, even though I WATCHED, and entered information when the tech guy came out to use my computer and set some stuff up awhile back. Asked for the manager, and, he was the one that pointed me to the switch setup as being the problem, and he was right. Overall a long day. I think I may go buy the E4200, since costco has them on sale...