If Verizon were soooo smart...

Verizon has a commercial where this guy is at a bar with his tablet and the screens in the bar go out in the middle of the game.

He shouts out "Guys, I got it here" and they all huddle around this 10" screen to watch the game....

Any good network will have an internal DHCP service running to keep systems connected to devices...ie. monitors ;-)

sidenote: Verizon is the new HP.

Now the guy at the bar is "Obviously" if he is smart...is using their wireless, the situation:

Were guessing that the signal went out with their cable company or possibly yes, a router could have went out, but you have two.

Typically two routers do not go out, but the situations are different:

If you use the modem that you got the from cable company you'll have DHCP and Internet, if your cable company modem is out, then you'll use your internal router, but you'll only have DHCP w/out Internet.

sidenote: If the internal router went out, you'll need to take the Internet cable out of it and put it into the Ethernet switch. This device will have numbers on it, 1-5...10 even and more, but just take the cable that is going from the router to the switch out and replace it with the Internet cable. Viola, Straight in, until your router is replaced.

Either way, a connection can be made as long as the cable companies modem is wireless ;-)

Either way - again, you'll be able to output your signal to the screens that are in the bar.

So the "situation" and the Verizon Solution was to have everyone huddle around a 10" screen, when he could have just outputted it to the Screens in the bar :-P

If the internet is down you'll be using your Data Minutes, so think about what you are doing first before you share your data minutes, Bar Credit is always cool ;-)

sidenote: Verizon wasn't looking at the "Big Picture" because they were only concerned about the use of their minutes...which answers the question: the internet did go down :-)

That's how we see it, don't you...

**UPDATE**Internal routers were to add wireless to their network. Cable didn't come with wireless for a long time, but DSL did, so not always for DHCP.  FYI DHCP is in there though ;-)

Which brings up the point if you don't have a "Wireless" option and have to connect your device directly in this can be done too, which brings us to Mode 5...

"Sandbox Mode"...which should remind us of two modes already out there...work and home or Mode 6 and Mode 7 :-)