[mdlug] Router is giving up on routing let alone working

[R. Kannan]

I am also seeing similar failures with my nearly 4 year-old LinkSys (model WRT54?) router. My laptops which connect through wifi lose connection to internet once in while and the only solution is to power cycle the router. How do these devices 'go bad'?

-----Original Message-----
>From: Robert Adkins <radkins at impelind.com>
>Sent: Nov 3, 2009 12:29 PM
>To: 'MDLUG's Main discussion list' <mdlug at mdlug.org>
>Subject: [mdlug] Router is giving up on routing let alone working
>
>I have a Linksys Wi-Fi router that has served me well for about... 4 years
>or so and now, it's giving up the ghost.
>
>I had to reboot it a few times last night in order to make any networking
>function last night. For the last few weeks, I have been receiving some
>extremely high latency, which I had been attributing to the Cable Internet.
>Now, I'm thinking it was the router.
>
>So, any suggestions of good, quality hardware that's available on the shelf
>of any local computer shops?
>
>This will be my 3rd router in roughly 7 or so years. Do they just build crap
>consumer level routers or have I just been unlucky?
>
>Thanks,
>Rob
>
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