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Date:	Thu, 4 Oct 2001 10:24:21 PDT
From:	Steve Carter <scarter@vcnet.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: SMC addressing

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I had the same problem with my DSL line, initially. After
many hours, over several days, of screwing around with
various tech support suggestions, we finally powered down
the DSL "modem" and all was as expected.

Now, I shut off EVERYTHING when I power down daily and let it
all restart. I leave NOTHING running when I'm away for the day.
I've got fixed IP, so I KNOW where I'll be next time I start up.
Saves power, prevents intrusion (when off), and makes me happy(-er).
But when I power-down the SMC7004BR, the networked printer/FAX
hiccups -- a nuisance requiring me to press the printer reset button.

RE-BOOTING the DSL router and or DSL/Cable modem is the FIRST
thing we should have tried, not the last. They say you get
wisdom from experience. Oh well . . . . .

--Steve

Print server installation went smoothly, on both OS/2 and Windoze.
Windoze 9x doesn't come with TCP/IP printing, so you have to install
it from somewhere. SMC has it for their print server on their CD.
If you also use a second print server, as I do, you may have to find
other TCP/IP software to communicate with it. I found an IBM package,
in Japan, which fills the bill nicely, and allows up to (I think) 16
different print servers to be defined, more than enough for me.
I've come to embrace network printing, even for my two computers.
I networked my new Xerox (N)C20 printer within an hour of first
assembling the pieces. I'm a convert!

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On 10/04/01, Ray Davison wrote, in part:
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>I recently got an SMC7004BR to go with new cable service. The cable
>installer got me connected to to a single machine running W95. There
>are clear and detailed setup instructions for SMC on W95. Performing
>this did not provide connection, the cable installer said he had done
>what he came for, which was all I expected, and left.
>
>There is also a setup program which I think does the same thing as
>manual setup. Running that did not help.
>
>Tech support at SMC was excellent. I talked to them before I bought the
>router and after when it wouldn't connect. The advised fix, which
>worked, was to reboot the modem, router and computer. To keep the
>system functioning, the advice seems to be never power down the modem
>and probably not the router.
>
>There are instructions for setting up a print server, but I have not
>tried it yet. Talk to peter. >Ray

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