![]() ![]() The dock apparently holds the mac address of the MacBook and retains the IP even when the MacBook isn’t docked. You can almost hear the hum of the network coming back up just like when the power comes back up when you have an outage, like the fridge would start humming and lights would go click, click, click, as each light came back on, except the network and wifi is almost like a conduit to your brain some people get headaches from the 5ghz signal but I get this feeling like I’m somehow connected to the world. I pulled the ethernet cable out from the dock and the internet came back up. My whole local network including Wifi and the internet went down. Yes I did give my new MacBook a new name and this was my old MacBook that I was playing around with. I yanked my MacBook from the Dock and was using it “sans wires” when a message popped up that said that I got two MacBooks with the same name on the network and the OS then changed the name to MacBook (4445). I must have pulled the ethernet cable from the USB-C dock eventually because my internet came back up.Īt this time I am suspecting that it wasn’t Telus but something in my Network? hmmmmm I wonder what it is? man is this a head scratcher? Oh about time I said… and proceeded to forget all about it until the next morning when it happened again and I reset all my routers, switches and you have to understand that all this reseting is not an easy process as plugs are behind bookshelves and I’m on my hands and knees swearing at Telus. Out of frustration I even started to pull out the ethernet cables from my MacBook Docks… You should be able to guess where this is going by now… and the internet came back up… but I didn’t put the two together and you would think by now I should have known. I called Telus and at 5AM there was an hour wait time for tech support. Oh great I thought, Telus is down? I proceeded to reset all my routers, my switches and after all that, my internet was still out. I finally wandered into my living room to figure out why Siri didn’t respond to my request, to find that my whole internet is down. The house was dark and I stumbled around in the dark looking for the light switch. One night this last Christmas I woke up at about 5AM for some strange reason and said “Siri, turn on the lights” and there was no response. Yanking the ethernet cable off the USB-C dock would usually fix it. I had my new MacBook on a second USB-C Dock that I knew that from time to time would lock the network of which I had thought it was just a defective dock.īTW a lock network is a network that has no internet, no wifi and no local networking so no access to the local NAS. I had to restore my old High Sierra backup OS to my new MacBook in order for all my apps to work. I’ve had no problems with the My Clouds disappearing off the network at all.įast forward to Christmas as I managed to buy a brand new discontinued MacBook 12" with a French Keyboard at a great discount (almost a $1000 off the MSRP price) and I spent Christmas fighting with Apple new OS Cortina which decides to be like Microsoft in rejecting most of my 32 bit apps. Eventually the internet got restored and all my My Clouds started working as advertised by WD. ![]() WD for always creating problems and Telus for going down in internet service and the worse part is that getting tech support from Telus takes an hour to get through as the Queue is horrendous no matter what time of day or event. Update: feb-11th-2020 - bought some new USB-C hubs and my network hasn’t had one hiccup ever since.īack many months ago I plugged all my My Clouds and my My EX2s back onto the network and coincidentally my new Telus Internet provider decided to go down at the same moment. If you don’t want to read my ramblings, just head straight down to the bottom of this post. ![]()
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