I have been wracking my brain for the better part of a month over this one.
I have a Linksys wireless - B broadband router and it has completly locked down. I tried doing a soft reset and a hard reset several times with no luck. I finally broke down and bought another one today and for about an hour computer A was running fine. After about 15 minutes of running computer B the new router locked down. I figured something in the neighborhood had to be causing this so I grabbed my laptop and started scanning for networks. I covered roughly a square mile around my house and didn't find anything that looked out of the ordinary ( I was shocked at how many networks I came across that were completly wide open ) so I completly checked my PC's and didn't find anything that might be causing the problem. I tried doing a soft reset but now I can't even get into the web based utility so I did a hard reset and I am still locked out. Whatever it is has either completly locked down my router or is hitting it enough times to lock it down in the minute it takes me to reset and restage my router.
Has anyone else run into this problem or anyone have any ideas as to what it might be?
Edit: I have been running this exact same configuration for almost a year now so it's not a setup problem and yes I checked the settings when I still had access to the web based utility, they are set to what they should be set to.
Edited, Thu Jul 7 23:35:13 2005 by jchapin
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To narrow it down, try connecting one of the computers by eth cable and try to get to the config utility. Have you gotten a new cordless phone or other wireless devices in the last month? Do both computers lose connectivity simultaneously, it's not the nics?
From what I hear, electric fences can do this too. Perhaps a neighbor recently installed one of those invisible dog fences?
RFI can come from a plethera of devices that most people wouldn't think about.
RFI can come from a plethera of devices that most people wouldn't think about.
Comp A and B are wired. The laptop is wireless. I could understand RFI blocking the laptop but I didn't think it would completly lock down the router.
I lost all three connections at the same time. 2 wired and 1 wireless.
All three comps work fine when connected directly to the modem.
I can think of 3 possable causes but I have checked all three and can't seem to find a problem.
1: Bad wireless nic card. I tried fixing the network with the wireless disconnected. Same problem.
2: I am being hacked wirelessly. I didn't pick up anything unusual when I ran the scans with my laptop so I don't think thats it.
3: I am being hacked through the hardline. If I was being hacked through the hardline my comp should have picked it up when I was connected directly to the modem so I don't think thats it either.
I really don't want to deal with linksys because i am about 99% sure I will get the usual tech response. "It's not our hardware. It's something else."
Can anyone think of something I might have missed?
I lost all three connections at the same time. 2 wired and 1 wireless.
All three comps work fine when connected directly to the modem.
I can think of 3 possable causes but I have checked all three and can't seem to find a problem.
1: Bad wireless nic card. I tried fixing the network with the wireless disconnected. Same problem.
2: I am being hacked wirelessly. I didn't pick up anything unusual when I ran the scans with my laptop so I don't think thats it.
3: I am being hacked through the hardline. If I was being hacked through the hardline my comp should have picked it up when I was connected directly to the modem so I don't think thats it either.
I really don't want to deal with linksys because i am about 99% sure I will get the usual tech response. "It's not our hardware. It's something else."
Can anyone think of something I might have missed?
My advice:
1) Do a HARD reset...the one that resets passwords, settings, etc. on the router.
2) Do not plug your router into the cable modem, just plug your laptop into the router.
3) Change the Admin password IMMEDIATELY and save your settings before you do anything else.
OK this should start you from a blank page.
Now, there are several things to check. I had a similar problem with another Linksys router, and so did a friend. Both had different resoultions.
1) The firmware could be borked up; sometimes the upgrades just don't take on the routers for some reason. Download the latest and greatest firmware (good thing to do anyway) and upgrade the router. After a firmware upgrade, reset the router again and make sure that the admin password was not reset to default.
2) I had an issue where the router log was enabled, and it would fill up very quickly. When the log filled up, the router would simply stop working, but wouldn't tell you a damn thing. Make sure the log is disabled.
A couple other random things. If there really is a virus/hacker that is ******** with your network, you can try changing the IP address on the router from the default. Linksys likes to use the same address for all their routers (I think it's 192.168.1.245 or .240) and changing that address will make it harder. Also, make sure that the second computer you are plugging in is not getting the same IP address as your first computer or as the router itself. That could simulate a "lock up" as the machines contend with each other for network broadcasts.
Give that stuff a shot and see how it goes.
1) Do a HARD reset...the one that resets passwords, settings, etc. on the router.
2) Do not plug your router into the cable modem, just plug your laptop into the router.
3) Change the Admin password IMMEDIATELY and save your settings before you do anything else.
OK this should start you from a blank page.
Now, there are several things to check. I had a similar problem with another Linksys router, and so did a friend. Both had different resoultions.
1) The firmware could be borked up; sometimes the upgrades just don't take on the routers for some reason. Download the latest and greatest firmware (good thing to do anyway) and upgrade the router. After a firmware upgrade, reset the router again and make sure that the admin password was not reset to default.
2) I had an issue where the router log was enabled, and it would fill up very quickly. When the log filled up, the router would simply stop working, but wouldn't tell you a damn thing. Make sure the log is disabled.
A couple other random things. If there really is a virus/hacker that is ******** with your network, you can try changing the IP address on the router from the default. Linksys likes to use the same address for all their routers (I think it's 192.168.1.245 or .240) and changing that address will make it harder. Also, make sure that the second computer you are plugging in is not getting the same IP address as your first computer or as the router itself. That could simulate a "lock up" as the machines contend with each other for network broadcasts.
Give that stuff a shot and see how it goes.
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