Gateway Ping Failure - stumped

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If you're using PowerLine adapters, they must both be on the same power leg (phase). Try moving your adapter to different plugs.

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Originally Posted by awsure

I would kind of raise an eyebrow when you point at a "multi-vendor" environment as the issue. You seem to be implying that one could actually develop a single vendor network. I guess it depends on where you define the limits of the network but the flip side question from me is I should not expect a certain level of interoperability in these devices? Heck, the adapters are not the same mfg. as my router which come from a different mfg. than my modem. Oddly enough they seem to coexist.

Anyway...thanks for the input.

First - I NEVER pointed to a multi-vendor environment as the issue, I merely said they were the worst to troubleshoot.

Second - whilst you should be able to purchase equipment meeting specific standards from different vendors and expect them to "inter-operate", the sad fact of life is that it does not always work that way, and when it doesn't someone has to put in the time & energy to find out why and how to make it work - that's how people like me earn a living.

Can there be such a thing as a single-vendor network - there most certainly can - in fact, I just watched a client invest $150K in a Dell equipment upgrade with his choice driven by the application vendor who refused to work in a muti-vendor environment, since he was running the application on Dell hardware, he's been forced to upgrade using Dell hardware - Dell servers, Dell switches & Dell storage - I get the task of installing & implementing (which Dell will pay me to do), and if I run into a problem, Dell has to find the solution.

Why do you think that when you walk into a bank, or a hospital, and look around, you only see one brand - Dell, HP/Compaq, IBM - corporate buys the equipment from what is known as a "channel partner", they pay a higher price for the equipment, and as a part of that higher price the channel partner provides the service to make the solution work.

The flip side is the american consumer culture that expects to be able to walk into a big "box" vendor, and pay rock bottom price and walk back out and everything will magically inter-operate.

Unfortunately that's not the reality - the reality is that YOU either make it work or you pay someone else to make it work - and so the big "box" vendors offer installation services as a separate item.

By the way - it's not about how you define "network" - it's about how you define "vendor" - you can buy different brands of hardware from a single "vendor" and make it his headache to integrate the brands into a functional solution.