This is kind of long. I live in a very small town. A part of town this is separated by a golf course with very few houses, old people, and internet access only available by wifi. Most of my neighbors don't even have internet.
For the past few days, I've been having internet connection problems. My home network consists of a printer and a computer directly connected to the router and another computer connected by a wireless card.
The problem I'm was having started when I was trying to add my network printer to my fathers computer which has a static address assigned to it. For some reason the driver got deleted from my fathers computer. We tried adding the printer again but the computer wouldn't find it even when we provided the ip address. We tried everything and as a last measure rebooted the router and that's when the real mess began.
We lost internet connectivity. Tried rebooting again, nothing. Unplugged the power to the router, still nothing. The port lights would either be all on or all off. At this point I thought I royally screwed something up. I had a backup router laying around so I decided to try that.
We plugged that in and still couldn't get a connection. Reset the thing still nothing. After awhile we somehow got an internet connection again but only to the computer that was directly plugged into it. In order for my computer to connect wirelessly, I discovered I had to unplug the power to the router and plug it back in and then I could magically connect. Couldn't understand this. Left it this was for a day or so but when my computer would go to sleep sleep and awake, I would have to go unplug the routers power again and then my connection would come back. Strange.
Tonight I got really sick of this and wanted to fix everything. I started playing around with both routers. The original router still wouldn't work and the replacement would or wouldn't work. When it would work I couldn't get into it's menu and discovered that it didn't have an ip address to even get into it.
I was eventually able to get into it's menu only after unplugging everything but the computer directly connected to it. When I was in it looking at all the settings, I noticed this wireless connection that shouldn't be there since nothing else was connected. This wireless connection would appear and disappear. It had a mac address I didn't didn't know and under security it said STA-ASSOC. I didn't know how to get rid of this. I tried looking up sta-assoc but couldn't find much. All I found is that someone is somehow on or is trying to get on our connection and that I should try and make the password even harder which I did but this connection would still show up.
I ended up changing the password once more making it even harder and disabled wps just for the heck of it. I rebooted the router again and plugged everything back in. This mystery connection is now gone and everything is back to normal and my computer with the wireless connection connects without having to unplug the power to the router.
Tomorrow, I'm going to play around with my original router and see I can get that one working again. Maybe it has a similar problem with this mystery connection.
Could someone tell me if someone was or wasn't on my network screwing around with my connection? If they were, how could they even get on or disable the router in a way that my home computers wouldn't have a connection.
For the past few days, I've been having internet connection problems. My home network consists of a printer and a computer directly connected to the router and another computer connected by a wireless card.
The problem I'm was having started when I was trying to add my network printer to my fathers computer which has a static address assigned to it. For some reason the driver got deleted from my fathers computer. We tried adding the printer again but the computer wouldn't find it even when we provided the ip address. We tried everything and as a last measure rebooted the router and that's when the real mess began.
We lost internet connectivity. Tried rebooting again, nothing. Unplugged the power to the router, still nothing. The port lights would either be all on or all off. At this point I thought I royally screwed something up. I had a backup router laying around so I decided to try that.
We plugged that in and still couldn't get a connection. Reset the thing still nothing. After awhile we somehow got an internet connection again but only to the computer that was directly plugged into it. In order for my computer to connect wirelessly, I discovered I had to unplug the power to the router and plug it back in and then I could magically connect. Couldn't understand this. Left it this was for a day or so but when my computer would go to sleep sleep and awake, I would have to go unplug the routers power again and then my connection would come back. Strange.
Tonight I got really sick of this and wanted to fix everything. I started playing around with both routers. The original router still wouldn't work and the replacement would or wouldn't work. When it would work I couldn't get into it's menu and discovered that it didn't have an ip address to even get into it.
I was eventually able to get into it's menu only after unplugging everything but the computer directly connected to it. When I was in it looking at all the settings, I noticed this wireless connection that shouldn't be there since nothing else was connected. This wireless connection would appear and disappear. It had a mac address I didn't didn't know and under security it said STA-ASSOC. I didn't know how to get rid of this. I tried looking up sta-assoc but couldn't find much. All I found is that someone is somehow on or is trying to get on our connection and that I should try and make the password even harder which I did but this connection would still show up.
I ended up changing the password once more making it even harder and disabled wps just for the heck of it. I rebooted the router again and plugged everything back in. This mystery connection is now gone and everything is back to normal and my computer with the wireless connection connects without having to unplug the power to the router.
Tomorrow, I'm going to play around with my original router and see I can get that one working again. Maybe it has a similar problem with this mystery connection.
Could someone tell me if someone was or wasn't on my network screwing around with my connection? If they were, how could they even get on or disable the router in a way that my home computers wouldn't have a connection.
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