Fixing the wifi network at the parish

Today, I'm finishing the last of the fixes for the parish wifi. There are problems with the existing internet infrastructure, which causes the internet to be intermittent. The main suspect is conflicting access point subnets and multiple wifi signal broadcasting on channel 6.

For the first router, I found out that the wifi was intermittent because the router hang and had not been power cycle. However, I found out that since the routers were set up a long time ago, Johnny did not remember the admin password to log into the router. Therefore, we had to look at the instruction manual online and figure out how to reset the access point to factory default settings. After that, I changed the encryption from WEP to WPA so that the network could be more secure, changed admin password, wifi channel, and subnet.

Logging in to the trendnet router in Father Jose office.

Resetting the router with Johnny

The second problem was a cable and internal wifi card problem. Fortunately, we were able to find out that there were two problems because the internet stopped working for one administrator no matter what we did. Therefore, we brought in a cable tester to see if the cable was bad, brought in a new cable, and then tested the macbook to find out that the wifi card inside the computer was also bad.

Testing a cable with a cable tester

Finding out which cable goes where through the wall

Testing the cable with my macbook and figuring out that there was
both a bad cable and wifi card on Fanny's computer.

The router room where all the cables go to.

This Sunday, I am going to reset the clinic router to factory settings and store the password so that future repairs will be easier since the password for the router login will be available, and resetting the router regularly will be possible. In addition, if the parish staff decides to upgrade any equipment, knowing the password will save much more time than if they had to reset the entire router and configure it again!