And again today. Twice so far.
The phone service dropping with the internet service (not that thereās really a difference between the two anymore) would indicate that the problem is with the gadget the phone plugs into, or something on Frontierās side of that.
If the gadget has been replacedā¦itās time to have a tech physically check things out.
OK, guy came out, said he knew about the problem ā the EERO in the ONT. NO idea what any of that is, but new box in there, takes the fiber at the outside of my home, converts it to cable, voila!
We can wait until tomorrow for a test.
Not off yet today, so good news.
Old box was the FRG222. Guy said these boxes suck ballz. maybe said it a little differently.
New box is the FRX523.
Evidently it took more than (FRG)220.
Fricken-frackin thing works kind of. Off for half hour.
Unplugged modem, though the lights were green.
Now ok.
But dammit!!
Texted cable guy, hope this doesnāt turn crazy.
āThere were no utensils in medieval timesā¦ā
Already going medieval on him?
Just went through this.
Our home server which handles our workflow, client database and shared file server has been going nuts. Random errors we canāt diagnose or duplicate.
Spent days on software tweaks. Then I decided to rebuild from scratch. Fix rather than diagnose as I suggested above.so we are copying files and itās dead slow. I can type quicker than the file transfer.
Pulled a Linux install USB. Tried to install 3 times, flailed at three different points.
Mobo is toast almost certainly. Which is actually good news because I should be able to swap hardware, drop the old drives in and everything should go back to working tomorrow.
And the nonstop complaints from the peanut gallery about stuff not working will stop. I canāt add policies. Yes I know. I canāt view my tasks. Yes I know. I still canāt add policiesā¦
And I actually have 5 perfectly good servers sitting in my office but I canāt use them. Theyāre from the data center and theyāre older than a jet. Too loud to run in a house, wouldnāt be able to sleep.
Been a week and no issues. New whatever-it-is in the outside box where the fiber connects to the coax seems to be working well.
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What a week and a half. All manner of software issues. Dev guy spent a ton of time diagnosing. It was like playing whack a mole, couldnāt pin it down to software.
Then I decided to do what I recommended aboveā¦solve rather than diagnose. So I decided to wipe our home server and reinstall everything, which should fix whatever software problems we were having.
So we start doing backups. And the home server is flailing. So not software, looks like the mobo is toast.
So I bought a new mobo. And of course, it wonāt boot. Probably the CPU, but in 2024 the board should handle any CPU. Anyway, fine, Iāll flash the bios. It wonāt flash. Hours of tryna Ng stuff.
Fine, Iāll rip the CPU from my desktop and swap. Queue further issues. After a day and a half I finally got the server up and my pc back sort of working again.
Andā¦same problem with the software. So we do network speed tests. Yep, itās dropping stuff all over the place. Then we did a speed test between two other pcs and sure enough, itās not the server. Itās the networkā¦either the switch or the router acting inconsistently.
Threw another switch in. Everything works. All that for a switch. Ran into town, got a new switch, and all this time later finally we are back working again.
What a complete pita and waste of a couple of grand on the Devs time.