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It's likely that the router or D3 is locked up. Try power cycling the whole setup and then one at a time (D3 last). If that does not work you may need to reset or replace the router. If you still have your old Linksys sitting around you can put that in the loop to see if you can connect again. I have seen a couple of cases where none of this worked and an nvclear routine has to be run on the D3. If you have to do an nvclear it would also be a good time to update the firmware to 3.9.6T if you have not done so already. Even though you don't need the internet, it will make the search routine faster and more accurate. You would also have to reinstall the current sat table if you do perform the nvclear routine.
-------------------- Bill Adams Winegard Company Posts: 15776 | From: Traveling the Western US | Registered: May 2003
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The router may not be working fine. It may or may not be but the function required to make the connection to the D3 could be at issue. You would need to trouble shoot that by either power cycling, resetting or replacing the unit. I am doing great, thanks. Our new job with Winegard is going better than we had expected and look forward to working with them for a long time. We just drove my El Centro a week or 2 back as we left our of Yuma for San Diego. We are now in Ontario, CA.
-------------------- Bill Adams Winegard Company Posts: 15776 | From: Traveling the Western US | Registered: May 2003
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Why? You have not talked about anything that would indicate that you have any kind of an issue with your D3. Oops, sorry, I said I would stand down.
-------------------- Bill Adams Winegard Company Posts: 15776 | From: Traveling the Western US | Registered: May 2003
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I'm good, thanks. I haven't had a D3 in many, many years. In any case, you are not going to get much help here if you don't listen to the suggestions from others. I suggest where a problem might be and you say "no, that's not it". Pretty hard to go anywhere from there. I remember you well and I hope you are doing great.
-------------------- Bill Adams Winegard Company Posts: 15776 | From: Traveling the Western US | Registered: May 2003
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Paul, is there some reason you are resisting power-cycling the router? Getting to the internet and not being able to get to a local address is a common problem that is almost always the router, as Bill knows. When it isn't the router, it is next most often a cable. It is least often the controller.
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Let's see, one suggestion I did not follow is I did not replace my router. The reason: It works fine for tcp/ip for computers. Is there some other protocol a D3 uses? If so, what is it?
The only other suggestion I did not follow is to do an nvclear. I would do this and asked how to do it and received no reply.
Did I ignore any others?
We are doing great. El Centro is such a healthy environment for the both of us and we will miss it when we leave this week.
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The suggestion that was made was to power-cycle the router. Every time it is/was suggested you just said it worked fine. If you ever did power-cycle it we don't know about it.
We have seen (and I have personally experienced many times) routers that stop passing packets on the local LAN (which are NOT routed, just switched) while the WAN continues to work fine. Off/on is not hard to do, although there is a small possibility of a bad router. It usually is just a locked up switch.
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