splatnix Posted September 10, 2003 Share Posted September 10, 2003 On Monday, my Linksys router went kaputz. I was able to get an IP address from my ISP (Adelphia) and their high level techs confirmed everything working on their end, so I called Linksys. After 2 hours on the phone with them, reseting defaults and such, I hung up and worked on it myself. I found that flashing the firmware to the latest (version 1.45.6) worked. I had been using 1.40.1 for the last 1.5+ years. I know of 1 other person that had to do this fix this past Friday, and they were running a 1.39.x firmware. Has Linksys enabled some kind of dating scheme that would disable the router after so long to force an upgrade? Has anyone else had these issues? Could it have been something else? What could possibly have happened that would cause the router, after all this time of working fine, to die to the point that, even after resetting to factory defaults, a firmware upgrade was REQUIRED to fix the issue? The Linksys Support has been less than helpful on the issue and I was wondering if some of you would know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mAcOdIn Veteran Posted September 10, 2003 Veteran Share Posted September 10, 2003 I doubt it. It probably would have worked had you just reflashed to 1.40.1 as well. Plus they don't get anything when you upgrade your firmware. If you had to buy a new router then I could see your point but having a whole line of routers die on a single day just so they would have to upgrade firmware is a tech support nightmare that I don't think they'd want, not to mention damaging to thier rep, and well just costs them alot of bandwidth for all the users downloading firmware on one day. Bottom line is I think it's coincidence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splatnix Posted September 10, 2003 Author Share Posted September 10, 2003 Bottom line is I think it's coincidence. You're probably right. The one thing I don't understand is what is the difference between going through the whole reset to factory defaults and reflashing? Whouldn't reseting to factory defaults (push&hold reset button for 1 minute, power off while still holding for 2 minutes, power back on while still holding reset for 1 mintute (Linksys tech support said the 10 seconds for each, as stated in the manual, is a typo) effectively flash it back to the original 1.40.1? I'm assuming, of course, that the factory settings are kept on 1 EPROM while the in-use is kept on another and it just overwrites. I could be wrong in my thinking though. Maybe it was just a glitch/bug in the earlier firmware version. Thank you for the insight :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Dorr Veteran Posted September 11, 2003 Veteran Share Posted September 11, 2003 Well, we just got DSL back in our townhouse today and the router has stopped working (aka, nothing's going through anywhere) twice so far. I upgraded the router and (knock on wood) it appears to be going ok. If it still starts dropping connections, I'll be sure to let ya know ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimM17 Posted September 11, 2003 Share Posted September 11, 2003 i have a linksys which has been running for almost 2 years straight now and the other day it just stopped giving out ip addresses. basically the dhcp server took a crap. Left it off overnight and turned it back on and its fine..hmm... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yvo Posted September 11, 2003 Share Posted September 11, 2003 boy i always upgrade my firmware whenever a new version comes out... just call me risky i guess :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splatnix Posted September 11, 2003 Author Share Posted September 11, 2003 boy i always upgrade my firmware whenever a new version comes out... just call me risky i guess :o I haven't kept up on it. I follow the if it aint broke don't fix it rule. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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