[SATLUG] Router Weirdness

[Joseph Forbes]

Hey Walt!

  What was strange about our linksys...  It IS on a UPS. APC UPS500 (good
battery mind you) The vital link to the internet at our District Office is
on a UPS.  If the power goes out in the building, I am pretty much the only
one still on the internet. Heh Heh IT staff has priority!

 Only the Cable Modem, Linksys, WirelessAP & 32-port 3Com Hub are connected
to the UPS, then my office desktop is on a UPS, and so forth my laptop has
its own battery. 

I orginially thought it was a power issue, until I remembered connections to
the internet is on UPS.   But I agree, puting your Linksys on a UPS will
definantly clear out power surging issues. Bad power = hardware failures. 


Sincerely,


  Joseph Forbes "Don't Forget to Salt the Fries!"
Network Security Administrator
SwapNEtwork eXtreme, LLC 




-----Original Message-----
From: satlug-bounces at satlug.org [mailto:satlug-bounces at satlug.org] On Behalf
Of dubose at texas.net
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 9:33 AM
To: The San Antonio Linux User's Group Mailing List
Subject: RE: [SATLUG] Router Weirdness

Put the router on an UPS.  When I did that to my BEFSR41, the problem of
"rebooting" it went away.

Walt

Quoting Joseph Forbes <jftitan at satx.rr.com>:

> Hey Sean!
> 
> 
>  If your happening to have an issue with a Linksys BEFSR41 (somewhere 
> with the 4 port Cable/DSL router series) I might have a suggestion to 
> just skip right to upgrading the firmware of your router. Recently at 
> my District Office I was having a similar issue. Not as bad as your 
> explaination, but still once in a while I would have to crawl under my 
> desk to my "Linky", and pull the plug to reset its connection to the 
> internet.  Mind you our connection is with Time Warner Business Class 
> Road Runner. So far my experience with the 15 offices we have using 
> the TWRRBS have had Zero internet issues. (At the rate we are getting 
> we better not have internet
> issues)
> 
>  What I instantly gathered about our linksys, was that it was old. It 
> wasn't even a v3/v4 model. The firmware even told me it was 2002 
> based. A firmware update to 2004 did the trick for me.  It has been a 
> stable whole month and no need to crawl under my desk.
> 
> 
> 
> Joseph Forbes "Don't Forget to Salt the Fries!"
> Network Security Administrator
> SwapNEtwork eXtreme, LLC 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: satlug-bounces at satlug.org [mailto:satlug-bounces at satlug.org] On
> Behalf
> Of Don Wright
> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 9:24 PM
> To: Sean Carolan; The San Antonio Linux User's Group Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [SATLUG] Router Weirdness
> 
> On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 16:52:02 -0600, Sean Carolan <scarolan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> >I'm trying to track down a problem that seems like it *might* be coming 
> >from the router/firewall device that we use to connect our LAN users to 
> >the Internet.  Every so often, everyone's internet surfing just sort of 
> >slows to a crawl and no one is able to load websites, at least not very 
> >fast.
> 
> What brand and model of router/firewall? If it's a Linksys have you
> checked
> the forum on BroadbandReports for problems with the version of firmware
> you
> have?
> 
> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/linksys
> 
> (The symptom sounds familiar.)  --Don
> 
> --
> "Reboot, Reinstall, Replace." The three-R's of Computer Literacy.
> 
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