I was up all night fixing a modem then router problem.  The modem kept cycling and negotiating channels.  Normally restarting it would solve that issue.  It did not.  So I factory reset it.  Then that was where me being tired after being up all day and now about 2:30 am, I missed an important piece of the puzzle.  Ron got up at three to use his iPad and it wouldn’t connect because I had the modem out of the system.  I had it hooked directly to my main computer.

Then trying to reboot the router I forgot to change the Ethernet cables back around and was getting frustrated I couldn’t access the router controls.  I was factory resetting and rebooting the router, I was using my phone to try to access the system, nothing was working.  I was super frustrated when Ron popped his head in the door and asked what I was doing.  I explained it, then he told me his pad did not connect saying the Wi-Fi was not there.  I sat there trying to explain it to him when the light bulb over my head came on.  I told him to give me five minutes and he would have internet. 

In trying to explain what I was doing to him after nearly 20 hours awake it dawned on me, I had failed to move the cables back to the router so I was trying to access a piece of equipment not in the loop, not connected.   I quickly redid the correct cable configuration of modem to router to computers and then I accessed the now factory cleared router.  I restored my security settings, all the passwords, and in about 7 minutes had the system up.  I went to bed around 4 am.  Tired but happy.  I noticed that everything I did stopped the modem from cycling also.  I got back up at 7:30 am.  I am doing laundry now and will start on comments.  It is going to be a long day.  I still have to go into the router and bind the devices so they can’t be spoofed but I am too tired to work on it now.   At least I don’t have Ron’s job of cutting out flooring around metal support beams and plumbing lines for water and sewer.  Hugs.