{Disarmed} Router problem

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 20:31 -0700, Mark Jarvis wrote:
> 
> I have a laptop connected via wireless & two computers connected via
> cable to a Linksys WRT54G router which is connected to a Linksys cable
> modem. Most of the time everything is OK but every day or four the
> router & the cable modem quit talking. When this happens, unplugging
> the router for 15 or 20 seconds fixes the problem. Friend wife is
> getting very tired of the interruptions & says "If that router isn't
> working right, get a new one!"
> 
> Before I spend the $$ for a new router, I decided to try upgrading the
> firmware on what I have. I went to Linksys.com & downloaded a firmware
> upgrade. I was going to do the recommended backup of the router
> settings before installing it, but I can't connect to the the blasted
> router! As instructed, I tried connecting to MailScanner warning:
> numerical links are often malicious: http://192.168.1.1/. I've tried
> from Seamonkey, Mozilla, & IE7 and get "Network Timeout" from all.
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are you certain that is the address of the router?

If on Linux, the last line of the command 'route -n' lists the gateway
address...is it really 192.168.1.1 ? (that is the default address for a
Linksys WRTG54G but it's possible you changed it).

Craig