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Posted by Bill M. on April 27, 2007, 10:48 pm
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 22:41:55 -0400, Doghouse Riley
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>First one was a Linksys BEFSR41. After an outage problem with my ISP,
>we got the net connection working OK but the router could not be made
>to work. I figured it was because I was doing port forwarding with it
>before, but no amount of power cycling and reset buttoning would help.
>Cable connection worked fine when the PC went right into the modem, as
>soon as I put the router into the loop - nothing.
Did you reboot the cable modem so it could pick up the MAC address of
the new router? Did the router respond to pings on any of its LAN
ports? Were you able to log into the router and look around? Was it a
total brick, or did it only refuse to pass traffic in/out of the WAN
port? Did the lights look ok?
>So I bought a Belkin F5D5231. Worked OK for 3-4 months. This morning
>- nada. Again the connection is fine when the cable modem is plugged
>into the PC, zip when I add the router.
Same questions as above, especially the cable modem reboot.
>I spent half an hour tonight swapping routers and cables and
>resetting, all to no avail. All the lights are on where you would
>expect, just no signal traveling through either router.
>
>Do I have to start buying them by the case??
I'm pretty sure your routers are ok. I have way more experience with
Linksys (especially the WRT54G, but there are a lot of similarities,
I'm told), so I'll start there.
First, can you ping a LAN interface? Can you log into the router? "No
signal traveling through" isn't descriptive enough to know where the
problem is.
Have you done a full factory reset? You need to hold the reset button
in for 30 seconds. The little 10 second reset won't do it. If it still
doesn't respond to pings, turn it off, hold the reset button in, and
turn it on, continuing to press reset for 30 seconds. Run a "ping -t"
(continuous ping) during this whole time to see if it EVER responds,
even for a moment. If so, it can be brought back to life, but you may
have to use TFTP to do it. Also try connecting to the WAN port and
pinging it as if it was a LAN port. Under specific circumstances, they
get confused and switch the LAN and WAN ports around, even though it
generally isn't very useful to have 4 WAN ports and a single LAN port.
Check out http://www.linksysinfo.org/index.php for additional info and
tips. Let us know what you find out. Good luck.
--
Bill
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