I’m wow’crackin along on three machines, streaming music to my tivo, and all of a sudden, the tivo goes quiet. A little later, one of the three wow machines admits he’s lost internet as well. My first assumption is that cable went down, but no low and behold, the other two machines are indeed still connected to the net just fine.
After an entire afternoon of cable and router swapping, I’ve got everything working again, sorta. I had to switch the laptop and the Tivo to wireless connections. No matter what ports or cables I used, those two items just refused to work. Oh the cable lights seemed just happy, but they couldn’t see any other machines on the network.
Very strange behavior. And science says a computer is a finite state machine.
Tags: computers wierdness