Post TU Comms and Networking

[River Song]

A Day of Total Frustration.

I wrapped up 3 out of my 4 micro-computers up and put them on the side.
Left one running the PBX - all well and good.

The new meshing computers arrived but sadly they didn't have the pbx loaded on board,
and although I could hack and install, I was more than happy to get these two units meshing together over wifi.

Connected one of the MESH's - call it MESH-A onto the router and thereafter to the Internet.
Ran up MESH-B only with WIFI - they meshed together over wifi. (Look mum - no cables)

Connected PBX onto the router.

I can connect my iPhone to either MESH-A or MESH-B and thereafter to the PBX or The Internet.

Lovely Jubbly - A technical term.

Now consider that the router is not there, i.e. I want to strap a MESH and PBX together.
It don't work and all of a sudden NOTHING worked.

I isolated this down and saw a number of software errors on the PBX at boot time, i.e. couldn't get DHCP running which means it can't get an IP address.

F....

Reinstall PBX

Same thing.

F....

Then I noticed that a number of lights were out ... and then the ethernet switch was out ..

O bugger --- I only bought it last week.

Took it in the kitchen --- plugged it in --- same there.

Hmm

Then I noticed a little switch on the power cable. It had slipped off.

AHA

Lesson for today ??

"It helps ya silly cow if its switched on"

Onwards .....

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Oh - BTW - Charles - your technical posts are referring to GSM or what we know as Cellphone or Mobile Phone frequencies

This thread is about WiFi or 802.11 which an altogether different leopard darling.