Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 8:43 AM
Subject: Re: [H] Possible router faliure
>>Hi folks,
>>
>>I don't ask much of the list very often but I'm up against it
now. I am running all Linksys equipment, BEFCU10 cable modem, BEFSx41
hardware firewall router, and a WRT54G wireless router setup as an access
point off the wired router.
Ok, you say the BEFSx41 was working just fine until you plugged into
WRT54G into it.
Try this... go into your WRT54G Linksys Bios.... under Setup do you see
the MAC address clone tab? Press the clone your PCs MAC address and see if
that doesn't bring it back a live. You can also try this in the BEFSx41.
I have three different Linksys routers, including a WRT54G set up to
isolate my LAN from my WAN. It took me months to get it working right and
it was eventually Linksys tech support that got it working. They will
solve the problem, but it is a really teeth grinding, annoying call to
make.
You will get tech support somewhere in the East. They follow a set
procedure that seems tedious, and unnecessary. But they know things about
their routers that you will never figure out. And if you do exactly what
they say, they will solve the problem. And if you get somebody that says
it can't be done... call back another time until you get a smarter tech.
In my case, I made many calls to tech support, and it was the only way I
eventually got all the problems solved.
Were you having the same slow connection issues when the wired router was
connected? The wireless works fine, except very slow as it my PC which is
connected to the wired router.
