Sometime around 3 yesterday afternoon, our router upped and died. It was an old Linksys model router/ firewall from before Cisco bought them out. It’s at least 7 years old and had served us faithfully that whole time, though not without the occasional glitch. It always managed to recover.
I wasn’t able to nail it down as the culprit until well after the initial problems were discovered. We’ve had issues before and previous experience had taught me that such problems were usually traceable back to our cable modem. This time proved the exception to the rule. In a nutshell, the router has a 4-port switch which became unable to maintain a hardware link for longer than a second or so. The LED’s were flashing wildly. I allowed it time thinking it might settle out; however, such was not to be.
This is the bugger I’ve enlisted to replace the Linksys model. I chose it because of the 8-ports; making my hookup a little cleaner. Previously, I had a second 4 port switch connected in order to give myself enough hookups. I also have one less power adapter to plugin. The reviews I’m reading aren’t all that positive, so I’ll have to keep an eye on it. Think I’ll be holding onto the box and stuff just to be safe.
The reviews not withstanding, I’ve been able to duplicate the setup from my Linksys, including DynamicDNS, port forwarding and so forth. I’ve also modified the admin username and password, so no mischief out there. Besides, the setup app isn’t available from the web.
For the now I have internet connectivity again. Hopefully this unit proves as reliable as the one it replaced.
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Where do you get the wireless from, that does not seem to be a wireless unit?
We have a wireless router on the second floor in the Wife’s office. The one in the basement came first and once I had it setup, I never bothered replacing it. Also, the Wife has a bunch of stuff connected to the wireless router, so it’s just easier to replace the Linksys one.