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iMac27 Dropping Ethernet Connection
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1879716" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>Just a clarification. The 192.168.0.1 address doesn't go to a "site" but goes to the server that is actually supported directly in the router inside the metal box, as you refer to it. Basically, that device is the "gateway" between your home LAN and the ISPs network, which is, in turn, connected to the actual Internet in some way. (It doesn't matter how they get there, it has no direct impact on your setup.) You can get to the 192.168.0.1 address even if the internet connection is totally broken, or even disconnected from the external world. In fact, you may need to do that if the ISP has issues and you need to know if the router still has a valid connection to the ISP network. From what you have described, I think the SafeStream is then connected by wire (called twisted pair because of how it is constructed to reduce interference) to the various locations in your house where the Netgear AP devices are attached. Then the APs either broadcast the signal by WiFi or allow you to connect by cable (again, twisted pair) to the AP directly. If in fact that is how you are wired, there is no reason that you could not, if you wanted to, connect the Mac directly to the cable from the SafeStream at the socket the AP is using and cut out the AP middleman. Of course, you would then lose the WiFi from that particular AP, but could conceivably have a strong enough signal from another AP to allow use of both, if you wanted. That simpler configuration may help with the loss of connectivity in the Mac by eliminating one potential source of trouble (the AP). </p><p></p><p>Let us know what the tech does and says.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1879716, member: 396914"] Just a clarification. The 192.168.0.1 address doesn't go to a "site" but goes to the server that is actually supported directly in the router inside the metal box, as you refer to it. Basically, that device is the "gateway" between your home LAN and the ISPs network, which is, in turn, connected to the actual Internet in some way. (It doesn't matter how they get there, it has no direct impact on your setup.) You can get to the 192.168.0.1 address even if the internet connection is totally broken, or even disconnected from the external world. In fact, you may need to do that if the ISP has issues and you need to know if the router still has a valid connection to the ISP network. From what you have described, I think the SafeStream is then connected by wire (called twisted pair because of how it is constructed to reduce interference) to the various locations in your house where the Netgear AP devices are attached. Then the APs either broadcast the signal by WiFi or allow you to connect by cable (again, twisted pair) to the AP directly. If in fact that is how you are wired, there is no reason that you could not, if you wanted to, connect the Mac directly to the cable from the SafeStream at the socket the AP is using and cut out the AP middleman. Of course, you would then lose the WiFi from that particular AP, but could conceivably have a strong enough signal from another AP to allow use of both, if you wanted. That simpler configuration may help with the loss of connectivity in the Mac by eliminating one potential source of trouble (the AP). Let us know what the tech does and says. [/QUOTE]
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