Per phone conversation, Dec 17 15:48 MST
The modem at this site was doing many reconnects and registrations with dyndns.org. Ling saw a good signal level. She taped the modem into the router.
Tested the rain gauge, ETI8. Saw no tips from "data_dump -i 4,80 -A" after pouring 1 liter of water in the gauge. John connected a pc to debug, and power cycled the gauge. After the power cycle it registered tips.