after typhoon, can't connect to router at all
I've had the load balance router living in a box up the hill serving a bunch of villages for a year now. We just had a typhoon and it's been 2 months and now power is restored so I'm trying to repair our network, but this load balance router won't connect to anything. the lights are all on as they're supposed to be, and flickering as if they're transferring data, but I just can't get anything on the lan port to connect and open it like before.
it was always on its default 192.168.0.1 lan IP, and was connected to a switch which I had a wireless access point connected to now if I try to connect to that wireless AP it just sits connecting.
I don't want to jump to a hard reset because this thing has lots and lots of config forbanwidth controls for all my customers. it's a poor remote village area in a 3rd world country.
there were some ants inside it, but the way the lights all come on and it looks like it takes a while as per normal while it boots.
is there anything I can do to get the config out?
I never could use the omada controller because it was bugged out so bad that I could never connect using the omada app, so had to run it in standalone mode.
I did try pluggingmy laptop directly into the lan port, and it makes a connection but I can't access 192.168.0.1
it's windows so I have to hit connect then immediately close the connection window because if I dont, it thinks, OH NO INTERNET BETTER NOT CONNECT TO THAT the stupid piece of junk. nothing ever works as developers or programmers intend.
so I can get it to say it's connected to an "unidentified network" with no internet, but can't get anything beyond that