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![]() After a lightning strike my dynamode wireless adsl router could not connect to the internet or to my PC through cable. Connecting the ethernet cable from the router to a laptop worked although, still not connection to the internet. After a whole load of basic troubleshooting from BT and a million things that i tried i eventually got to this stage: Using a adsl USB modem i can connect to the internet. (Rules out line faults) PC does not connect to router via cable (ethernet card fried presumably?) Laptop can connect to router via cable and wirelessly. I have done a hard reset of the router and entered all the settings in again but this did not fix it. After some research i have seen that ethernet cards can be damaged by these power surges so i assume there is no way to repair them? Although I still cant work out why the router cant connect to the internet! Maybe just some part of the router that connects to the internet has been damaged and is then irrepairable? Answers to any/all of these questions would be greatly appreciated! Martin UK |
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![]() After some research i have seen that ethernet cards can be damaged by these power surges so i assume there is no way to repair them? Although I still cant work out why the router cant connect to the internet! Maybe just some part of the router that connects to the internet has been damaged and is then irrepairable? Maybe and I would say its more a certainty its f****d. Dave |
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![]() I have repaired NICs. But fact that you are asking suggests you don't have sufficient knowledge or equipment. NICs typically have protection up to 2000 volts. If transients were earthed before entering a building, then that 2000 volts protection would not have been overwhelmed. Lightning seeks earth ground. If not provided a short (low impedance) earthing connection where phone line or AC electric line enters a building (the service entrance), then lightning will find other destructive paths. That would have happened in your case. Voltage rises as much as necessary to find earth. That means voltage exceeded 2000 volts - because a lower voltage path was not at the building service entrance. The British standard for this solution is BS6651 and summarized in: http://www.keison.co.uk/bowthorpe/do...on%20Guide.pdf http://www.telecom-protect-tech.co.uk/tp_lprotect.shtml Notice what is common and essential to every effective solution: earthing. An effective protector makes that less than 3 meter connection to a single point earth ground. Chances are ethernet card diagnostics execute OK in all first tests. IOW motherboard computer talks just fine to NIC computer. But that final test involves two ethernet cards talking to each other via interface IC and transformer. There is often where NICs are surge damaged. For further information, get and execute the NIC's comprehensive hardware diagnostic. Windows does not provide hardware diagnostics; only provides software diagnostic. wrote: After a lightning strike my dynamode wireless adsl router could not connect to the internet or to my PC through cable. Connecting the ethernet cable from the router to a laptop worked although, still not connection to the internet. After a whole load of basic troubleshooting from BT and a million things that i tried i eventually got to this stage: Using a adsl USB modem i can connect to the internet. (Rules out line faults) PC does not connect to router via cable (ethernet card fried presumably?) Laptop can connect to router via cable and wirelessly. I have done a hard reset of the router and entered all the settings in again but this did not fix it. After some research i have seen that ethernet cards can be damaged by these power surges so i assume there is no way to repair them? Although I still cant work out why the router cant connect to the internet! Maybe just some part of the router that connects to the internet has been damaged and is then irrepairable? Answers to any/all of these questions would be greatly appreciated! |
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![]() Thanks for the reply. I am a student studying computing/engineering so my knowledge is limited!! I wasn't thinking before, but I actually have spare ethernet cards lying about so that shouldnt be a problem any more when i replace it. The problem is the adsl modem inside the Dynamode wireless router (Im pretty sure). Repairing it may be beyond me but any information that could allow me to do this would be appreciated. Otherwise, just even the knowledge that that part of the router can be repaired so that I can take it to a shop to be repaired. Id rather repair than buy a new one. I know one of my options is to use software to share the internet connection and use the router to do so when ive got the ethernet card working on the PC, but this isnt a good solution for me! Thanks for the replies. |
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![]() Simply tracing a failure - without fixing it - is a significant educational tool. Don't just assume a destructive transient 'crashes on and burns out' an IC. Electricity does not 'crash' on ICs like an ocean wave. First transient current passes through everything in a complete circuit. Then something in that path fails. Get datasheets for that interface transformer. Note its breakdown voltage. Once voltage exceeds breakdown, then transformer primary and secondary become electrically connected. This is how that transient path was created and is traced. Stand back to determine where the transient would have entered and left the modem. For example, was a cable lying on baseboard heater? Then electrical path could be through cable insulation. What is breakdown voltage for that cable - to determine what may be a likely path? How did transient pass through router? Incoming on AC electric? Then outgoing might be through router motherboard digital ground; through interface IC, and outgoing to earth on phone cable via insulation. Notice transient was on router motherboard. But since there was no outgoing path through other ICs, then other ICs were not damaged. A DSL side failure, for example, could be incoming on phone line and outgoing on AC mains (or visa versa). UK phones typically have no earthed 'whole house' protector meaning that a shortest path to earth is via router. Modem's phone port should have galvanic isolation (ie a transformer) - protection required inside all electronics. Transient protection that can be overwhelmed if transient was not earthed before entering a building. Learn not to fix a modem. Instead learn how failure happens. We don't repair to save money - which is why repair shops only fix by swapping assemblies; which is why modems are not repaired. We repair at IC level only to learn. Best evidence is a dead body. That knowledge has value not measured in monetary terms or manhours. Just learning how to trace failure with an oscilloscope and datasheets is a powerful lesson. Martin wrote: Thanks for the reply. I am a student studying computing/engineering so my knowledge is limited!! I wasn't thinking before, but I actually have spare ethernet cards lying about so that shouldnt be a problem any more when i replace it. The problem is the adsl modem inside the Dynamode wireless router (Im pretty sure). Repairing it may be beyond me but any information that could allow me to do this would be appreciated. Otherwise, just even the knowledge that that part of the router can be repaired so that I can take it to a shop to be repaired. Id rather repair than buy a new one. I know one of my options is to use software to share the internet connection and use the router to do so when ive got the ethernet card working on the PC, but this isnt a good solution for me! |
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![]() Simply tracing a failure - without fixing it - is a significant educational tool. Don't just assume a destructive transient 'crashes on and burns out' an IC. Electricity does not 'crash' on ICs like an ocean wave. First transient current passes through everything in a complete circuit. Then something in that path fails. Get datasheets for that interface transformer. Note its breakdown voltage. Once voltage exceeds breakdown, then transformer primary and secondary become electrically connected. This is how that transient path was created and is traced. Stand back to determine where the transient would have entered and left the modem. For example, was a cable lying on baseboard heater? Then electrical path could be through cable insulation. What is breakdown voltage for that cable - to determine what may be a likely path? How did transient pass through router? Incoming on AC electric? Then outgoing might be through router motherboard digital ground; through interface IC, and outgoing to earth on phone cable via insulation. Notice transient was on router motherboard. But since there was no outgoing path through other ICs, then other ICs were not damaged. A DSL side failure, for example, could be incoming on phone line and outgoing on AC mains (or visa versa). UK phones typically have no earthed 'whole house' protector meaning that a shortest path to earth is via router. Modem's phone port should have galvanic isolation (ie a transformer) - protection required inside all electronics. Transient protection that can be overwhelmed if transient was not earthed before entering a building. Learn not to fix a modem. Instead learn how failure happens. We don't repair to save money - which is why repair shops only fix by swapping assemblies; which is why modems are not repaired. We repair at IC level only to learn. Best evidence is a dead body. That knowledge has value not measured in monetary terms or manhours. Just learning how to trace failure with an oscilloscope and datasheets is a powerful lesson. Martin wrote: Thanks for the reply. I am a student studying computing/engineering so my knowledge is limited!! I wasn't thinking before, but I actually have spare ethernet cards lying about so that shouldnt be a problem any more when i replace it. The problem is the adsl modem inside the Dynamode wireless router (Im pretty sure). Repairing it may be beyond me but any information that could allow me to do this would be appreciated. Otherwise, just even the knowledge that that part of the router can be repaired so that I can take it to a shop to be repaired. Id rather repair than buy a new one. I know one of my options is to use software to share the internet connection and use the router to do so when ive got the ethernet card working on the PC, but this isnt a good solution for me! |
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![]() Simply tracing a failure - without fixing it - is a significant educational tool. Don't just assume a destructive transient 'crashes on and burns out' an IC. Electricity does not 'crash' on ICs like an ocean wave. First transient current passes through everything in a complete circuit. Then something in that path fails. Get datasheets for that interface transformer. Note its breakdown voltage. Once voltage exceeds breakdown, then transformer primary and secondary become electrically connected. This is how that transient path was created and is traced. Stand back to determine where the transient would have entered and left the modem. For example, was a cable lying on baseboard heater? Then electrical path could be through cable insulation. What is breakdown voltage for that cable - to determine what may be a likely path? How did transient pass through router? Incoming on AC electric? Then outgoing might be through router motherboard digital ground; through interface IC, and outgoing to earth on phone cable via insulation. Notice transient was on router motherboard. But since there was no outgoing path through other ICs, then other ICs were not damaged. A DSL side failure, for example, could be incoming on phone line and outgoing on AC mains (or visa versa). UK phones typically have no earthed 'whole house' protector meaning that a shortest path to earth is via router. Modem's phone port should have galvanic isolation (ie a transformer) - protection required inside all electronics. Transient protection that can be overwhelmed if transient was not earthed before entering a building. Learn not to fix a modem. Instead learn how failure happens. We don't repair to save money - which is why repair shops only fix by swapping assemblies; which is why modems are not repaired. We repair at IC level only to learn. Best evidence is a dead body. That knowledge has value not measured in monetary terms or manhours. Just learning how to trace failure with an oscilloscope and datasheets is a powerful lesson. Martin wrote: Thanks for the reply. I am a student studying computing/engineering so my knowledge is limited!! I wasn't thinking before, but I actually have spare ethernet cards lying about so that shouldnt be a problem any more when i replace it. The problem is the adsl modem inside the Dynamode wireless router (Im pretty sure). Repairing it may be beyond me but any information that could allow me to do this would be appreciated. Otherwise, just even the knowledge that that part of the router can be repaired so that I can take it to a shop to be repaired. Id rather repair than buy a new one. I know one of my options is to use software to share the internet connection and use the router to do so when ive got the ethernet card working on the PC, but this isnt a good solution for me! |
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![]() On Wed, 10 May 2006 23:55:23 UTC, "w_tom" wrote: Simply tracing a failure - without fixing it - is a significant It's bad enough that you witter on so much with your North American version. But to post it THREE times... -- [ 7'ism - a condition by which the sufferer experiences an inability to give concise answers, express reasoned argument or opinion. Usually accompanied by silly noises and gestures - incurable, early euthanasia recommended. ] |
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![]() Bob Eager wrote: On Wed, 10 May 2006 23:55:23 UTC, "w_tom" wrote: Simply tracing a failure - without fixing it - is a significant It's bad enough that you witter on so much with your North American version. But to post it THREE times... yeah, but you posted in html........... Gaz |
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