Linksys EZXS16W Switch + BEFSR11 Cable/DSL Router Problems

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Linksys EZXS16W Switch + BEFSR11 Cable/DSL Router Problems josemonkey 11-21-2006
Posted by Jbob on November 21, 2006, 7:46 pm
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After reading a little bit what I can add is to use a Straight-Through
cable, which you said you were using, from the Router LAN port to port 1 of
the EZ16. The port # really doesn't matter with the exception of port 16.
Set the Router switch to Straight-Through since that is the type cable being
used. Port 1 of the EZ16 should detect it is being used for uplinking from
another device. It all should work from there.

I use a similar setup except I am using a more robust router and am using
the EZ8 Linksys switch instead of the 16. I do not see the issues you are
seeing. I do wonder if there could be some kind of hardware compatability.
You might consider a firmware update for the Router depending on version
being used.



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Posted by on November 21, 2006, 9:07 pm
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I'm currently running firmware version 1.44.2 on the router, as I've
had problems with 1.46.2 (latest) and 1.46. Those versions seems to
have weird http connectivity issues. I rolled back to 1.44.2 because I
heard from others that it was the most stable.

I'm wondering if now I'm running into the DHCP renewal issues that
others have discussed. (In fact, I'd swear I saw you discussing it
over on dslreports.com a while back!)

I'm keeping an eye on it. We'll see what happens.

> After reading a little bit what I can add is to use a Straight-Through
> cable, which you said you were using, from the Router LAN port to port 1 of
> the EZ16. The port # really doesn't matter with the exception of port 16.
> Set the Router switch to Straight-Through since that is the type cable being
> used. Port 1 of the EZ16 should detect it is being used for uplinking from
> another device. It all should work from there.
>
> I use a similar setup except I am using a more robust router and am using
> the EZ8 Linksys switch instead of the 16. I do not see the issues you are
> seeing. I do wonder if there could be some kind of hardware compatability.
> You might consider a firmware update for the Router depending on version
> being used.


Posted by Jbob on November 21, 2006, 10:12 pm
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> I'm currently running firmware version 1.44.2 on the router, as I've
> had problems with 1.46.2 (latest) and 1.46. Those versions seems to
> have weird http connectivity issues. I rolled back to 1.44.2 because I
> heard from others that it was the most stable.
>
> I'm wondering if now I'm running into the DHCP renewal issues that
> others have discussed. (In fact, I'd swear I saw you discussing it
> over on dslreports.com a while back!)
>
> I'm keeping an eye on it. We'll see what happens.
>

My next thought was to get you to do some more checking the next time it
happened. Instead of rebooting router just disconnecting the EZ16 switch
and then hooking a system directly to the router and see if it get's issued
a LAN IP and see if you can then access the router WEB interface. I'd be
curious if it was dropping it's WAN connection or not. The problem is that
if you cannot access the router it's kind of hard to tell what exactly is
going on with the router. You might try setting a static IP in the system
you directly connect and try and access that way.

I used to use a BEFSR41 v2 years ago. After it started develping issues
with the 1.45.7 firmware as well as a whoel buttload of others I finally
moved away from that router. Mine currently has the 1.46.2 but sits on a
shelf. I was thinking the DHCP issue was fixed with this latest version.



Posted by on November 21, 2006, 10:18 pm
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Jbob wrote:

> I used to use a BEFSR41 v2 years ago. After it started develping issues
> with the 1.45.7 firmware as well as a whoel buttload of others I finally
> moved away from that router. Mine currently has the 1.46.2 but sits on a
> shelf. I was thinking the DHCP issue was fixed with this latest version.

Out of curiosity, what kind of router do you have now?


Posted by Jbob on November 22, 2006, 12:14 am
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> Jbob wrote:
>
>> I used to use a BEFSR41 v2 years ago. After it started develping issues
>> with the 1.45.7 firmware as well as a whoel buttload of others I finally
>> moved away from that router. Mine currently has the 1.46.2 but sits on a
>> shelf. I was thinking the DHCP issue was fixed with this latest version.
>
> Out of curiosity, what kind of router do you have now?
>

Linksys RV082.



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