{Disarmed} Router problem

[Stephen]

soemthing else to consider, if you get to the point of ending the
device is to try the ddwrt firmware, its a tailored linux distribution
for the wrt routers. http://www.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv3/index.php

it might be one last item to save the device before you decide its a brick.

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:13 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> 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.
> ----
> 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
>
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Stephen