Good afternoon fellas. Sorry it took me so long to to get back online, however, the drought has now forced me to sell off most of my cows and today was a multiple trip day to the salebarn. I got up at about 3:30 AM today and checked in with my weatherpage at Weatherlink. The data had stopped flowing upstream to the site at 10:10 PM last night. Not knowing what else to do, I reset the router (power down, then power on). After a few moments, the data was current on Weatherlink. I have not had much of a chance to do much else than jack with cows today, but when I got to the house at about 3:00 PM this afternoon, my wife told me the internet was "down". I looked at the router and the power led was constant, the ethernet led was flashing, the wireless led was constant and the internet led was not on nor flashing. I powered down again and re powered a few moments later. I called my telephone company tech support and gave them the same story I gave them the week before last, at which time I was told the router was working and they had assigned it an IP address. Today, the genius at Centurylink kept me on hold for over 90% of the 1 hour and ten minutes while he was checking this, checking that, checking data download/upload speeds, etc. The final analysis from them is that the router is working fine since data can be transmitted without interruption to my pc software...the "problem" is the servers at Davis! And if I wanted to exchange the router, I had to bring it into one of their Centurylink stores next week. I opted not to accept this solution, as the store is about 160 miles from my home.
Now, the router at my home is is a Westell A-90 integrated modem/router...very cheap (and poorly constructed) according to various websites. Since it MUST be the router causing my problems, could you all recommend what particular modem/router/wireless combo I should pick up tomorrow...and from what source, ie, WalMart, Office Depot, etc. Please remember that computer supply stores are very limited in my 50 mile radius. I have another Zwire router that was recently replaced at my office, however, it is a combo router/modem and probably not much better than the Westell (both free from the various phone companies).
I will do whatever it takes to fix the problem, and most of you have now zeroed in on the router itself as being the problem since both the console and data logger have been replaced by Davis within the past week. Just tell me what to do and it will be done! And Dalecoy, I will need to take you up on your offer to help me with setting up a static IP for the WLIP. Your help and patience is appreciated.