Two routers bad on the same day?
by FTIO from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6Q7FH)
Hi gang,
I use network cams as security cameras here at my home. Two halfway decent Axis network cams that work on PoE (for a disabled person who could barely afford them - me). I've been using the one model for several years just fine. The other is new, got it about four months ago, and it's been working just fine.
I use Slackware 15.0 and Motion to capture video of movement.
This morning, I come into the computer room and sit down and start fiddling around with checking out the news, etc. The security camera stuff is on another computer so that all that computer does is record.
I happened to look over at the monitor expecting to see a 'live' view, but saw a black screen. I use Firefox to open the live view, btw, and it was just the firefox screen view that was black.
So I figured a router reboot would not hurt anything, but that did nothing. So I unplugged the power from the camera at the PoE switch...but that didn't help either. I then did a whole computer reboot, and *that* did nothing.
I simply couldn't connect again to the camera network, even after trying to use different networking setups via the system settings for networks gui.
My router is a pretty good one, and it too was difficult for me to afford. They're both the same exact make and model, I got the one about 5 years ago and the other about a year ago. They're both the LINKSYS-1900ACS (V1). Both have DD-WRT on them, *BUT*, when I moved from one place where I had cable internet and I could use *MY* router, to where I am now, I first had to use Satellite and *their* router which didn't allow me to use my own router so I couldn't have video security. Then just two months ago we finally got fiber optics out here in the woods, but I still had to use their router, but I figured out how to make the security video work, but couldn't get on the internet on that computer unless I chaged what network I used on the network manager. Because of this, I couldn't use the DD-WRT on my routers, so I had to set them back to the stock LINKSYS and use that to get through it to my camera(s).
Anyway, I couldn't get the one router to work right, so, I got the other router, which is identical and with the same DD-WRT (and stock) software on it. *That* router would show a few lights instantly when I powered it on, but wouldn't do *anything* at all after that...no lights whatsoever! I unplug the power from that one and go back to the original, and now the original lights up in ways that lets me know it's trying to work, but the lights do a number of blinks and such in a certain way, then go out and in a few seconds come back on and try again...infinite loop of this.
How do two perfectly good routers suddenly go 'bad' when they were working just hours earlier, presuming the backup would have been working fine if I'd had it hooked up instead of the other all this time, it *did* work though?
The last router I have, and old TPLink N750, is working, but *not* allowing me to get to my cameras still.
I have an itchy suspicion that the fiber optic company did something to *their* router firmware that screwed up *my* routers. I tried sending them e-mails a month ago asking them to let me know how to use my own router (the LINKSYS 1900ACS being more than up to the task for fiber speeds of 4.1Gbs), but they never answered me. So I just kept on letting my system do what it was doing since it 'just worked'. Is there some way anyone knows of, that I can use my own router instead of theirs? A way that a guy with a child-like mentality when it comes to 'things network' and not gui, can understand and do that anyone knows about? Or maybe just *why* this happened to my (expensive, at least to someone on a disability check!) routers? I'd sure appreciate any information anyone may have.
I use network cams as security cameras here at my home. Two halfway decent Axis network cams that work on PoE (for a disabled person who could barely afford them - me). I've been using the one model for several years just fine. The other is new, got it about four months ago, and it's been working just fine.
I use Slackware 15.0 and Motion to capture video of movement.
This morning, I come into the computer room and sit down and start fiddling around with checking out the news, etc. The security camera stuff is on another computer so that all that computer does is record.
I happened to look over at the monitor expecting to see a 'live' view, but saw a black screen. I use Firefox to open the live view, btw, and it was just the firefox screen view that was black.
So I figured a router reboot would not hurt anything, but that did nothing. So I unplugged the power from the camera at the PoE switch...but that didn't help either. I then did a whole computer reboot, and *that* did nothing.
I simply couldn't connect again to the camera network, even after trying to use different networking setups via the system settings for networks gui.
My router is a pretty good one, and it too was difficult for me to afford. They're both the same exact make and model, I got the one about 5 years ago and the other about a year ago. They're both the LINKSYS-1900ACS (V1). Both have DD-WRT on them, *BUT*, when I moved from one place where I had cable internet and I could use *MY* router, to where I am now, I first had to use Satellite and *their* router which didn't allow me to use my own router so I couldn't have video security. Then just two months ago we finally got fiber optics out here in the woods, but I still had to use their router, but I figured out how to make the security video work, but couldn't get on the internet on that computer unless I chaged what network I used on the network manager. Because of this, I couldn't use the DD-WRT on my routers, so I had to set them back to the stock LINKSYS and use that to get through it to my camera(s).
Anyway, I couldn't get the one router to work right, so, I got the other router, which is identical and with the same DD-WRT (and stock) software on it. *That* router would show a few lights instantly when I powered it on, but wouldn't do *anything* at all after that...no lights whatsoever! I unplug the power from that one and go back to the original, and now the original lights up in ways that lets me know it's trying to work, but the lights do a number of blinks and such in a certain way, then go out and in a few seconds come back on and try again...infinite loop of this.
How do two perfectly good routers suddenly go 'bad' when they were working just hours earlier, presuming the backup would have been working fine if I'd had it hooked up instead of the other all this time, it *did* work though?
The last router I have, and old TPLink N750, is working, but *not* allowing me to get to my cameras still.
I have an itchy suspicion that the fiber optic company did something to *their* router firmware that screwed up *my* routers. I tried sending them e-mails a month ago asking them to let me know how to use my own router (the LINKSYS 1900ACS being more than up to the task for fiber speeds of 4.1Gbs), but they never answered me. So I just kept on letting my system do what it was doing since it 'just worked'. Is there some way anyone knows of, that I can use my own router instead of theirs? A way that a guy with a child-like mentality when it comes to 'things network' and not gui, can understand and do that anyone knows about? Or maybe just *why* this happened to my (expensive, at least to someone on a disability check!) routers? I'd sure appreciate any information anyone may have.