Hello.
Please move to a proper place if there is one for computing/networking
Have what it is called a 'Gateway' at home for internet service, not a 'router'. Gets the provider coaxial from the utility pole and has four RJ45 jacks.
NO wireless of any kind at all, no wifi, no bluetooth, and I do not want them... Have ONLY ethernet wired 3 devices connected to the internet :
-one linux laptop,
-one chromebook,
-and one television tuner connected to internet.
Nothing Windows at all.
Can someone explain the correct sequence to power cycle the devices to fix the typical
"no internet" or
"no ethernet" or
"no networking" or
"DNS error" ? <---- this is the most pissing one showing up too often
Sometines the errors above show up, and by random trying power cycling, sometimes get fixed in one computer, fails on the other, pull my hair..., gets fixed if there is a lot of repeated praying going on... I want to know the correct way.
To cycle power at the Gateway; do all peripherials need to be off or on ? Or should I turn the peripherials off before the Gateway ? do the peripherials shoud be on in 'browser on' mode, asleep, hybernating ... ?
What goes on that sometimes fixes problems and sometimes does not ?
Please educate me, am the flag bearer of computer idiots.
Please move to a proper place if there is one for computing/networking
Have what it is called a 'Gateway' at home for internet service, not a 'router'. Gets the provider coaxial from the utility pole and has four RJ45 jacks.
NO wireless of any kind at all, no wifi, no bluetooth, and I do not want them... Have ONLY ethernet wired 3 devices connected to the internet :
-one linux laptop,
-one chromebook,
-and one television tuner connected to internet.
Nothing Windows at all.
Can someone explain the correct sequence to power cycle the devices to fix the typical
"no internet" or
"no ethernet" or
"no networking" or
"DNS error" ? <---- this is the most pissing one showing up too often
Sometines the errors above show up, and by random trying power cycling, sometimes get fixed in one computer, fails on the other, pull my hair..., gets fixed if there is a lot of repeated praying going on... I want to know the correct way.
To cycle power at the Gateway; do all peripherials need to be off or on ? Or should I turn the peripherials off before the Gateway ? do the peripherials shoud be on in 'browser on' mode, asleep, hybernating ... ?
What goes on that sometimes fixes problems and sometimes does not ?
Please educate me, am the flag bearer of computer idiots.