[ale] U-verse network issues

[Scott McBrien]

My last experience with Uverse was a couple of years ago.  At the time they would not support "router behind router" configurations.  I also wanted to keep thing separate, but my use of the additional network not only jacked up our intranet traffic, but not using the 192.168.1.0/24 network also jacked up all the tvs in the house.

-Scott

On May 8, 2011, at 8:01 PM, David Hillman <hillmands at gmail.com> wrote:

> My dad just got AT&T U-Verse.  They are using the U-Verse box as the main router for wired and wireless devices.  I believe in keeping that kind of TV traffic separate from everything and off my home network, but that's just me.  My dad called me because I helped hook up their HP network printer and now it doesn't work reliably.  Sometimes print jobs will come out garbled and other times it just sits there in the queue.  I am thinking packets are getting lost somewhere or the U-Verse box is doing something crazy.  Before I go buy them another router that can sit behind the U-Verse box for their local LAN, I'd like to prove that the U-Verse box is messing with the print jobs.  The print server can be pinged and I can pull up the printer config page from any computer, wired or wireless.  Plugging the print server into a desktop machine leads to flawless print jobs.  It's the network that's the problem, but why and where?
> 
> Doing a network trace seems like a good idea, except I don't know much about network tracing just yet (still learning).  Any quick and dirty tools for Ubuntu, etc that I can use? 
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