Linksys Wireless Router WRT54G Problem

ajg_xch · 2005-05-11T10:56:17+00:00

I have a problem with the above and my one PC with a WUSB54G adaptor.It used to work, but has stopped working recently for no apparentreason.I have upgraded the router firmware to IIRC v3.03, and can SEE thenetwork, which says that the connection is good, but IE6 refuses toaccess websites. Access is possible via my Ethernet Card connected tomy cable set-top box.I use ZA Pro, and have made sure that I have added the DHCP and DNSserver addresses to the trusted zone (and also tried the internet zone)to no avail. I have tried switching off ZA Pro to no avail.I can access the router set-up via the wireless adaptor, have triedcloning the MAC address, tried switching off WPA security, both to noavail.Does the fact that I cannot access any websites even by connecting theEthernet cable to the router and the router to the set-top box implythat the problem is with the router ?Any help would be much appreciated as I'm completely lost now and amnot especially au fait with wireless routing anyway, so am generallyjust trying things I find in this group.TIA

May 11, 2005 24 Replies

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William P. N. Smith 21 years ago

Well, except for the fact that you're getting an 80... instead of the

81... that you were getting with the router, it all sounds OK.

Hard to tell from the other side of the pond, try a hard reset (hold reset 30s, remove power, wait 30s, reconnect power, wait 30s, release reset) and without changing anything, setting a password, or doing a single bit of configuration, see if it works. Remember to power up the cable modem, the router, and the computer, in that order, waiting

60 seconds between devices.

Then I'd try cloning the MAC address of the router to that of your computer, as many cable systems care about MAC address.

If neither of those work, and you didn't do anything else when it stopped working, I'd try another one.

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ajg_xch 21 years ago

I've already tried the cloning of the MAC address, so I tried doing a hard reset of the router, and it didn't work.

I guess that just about settles it. The router is going back and I'm either going to try another one, or else I'm going to investigate how easy it is to feed the cable through from upstairs to downstairs and connect the set-top box and PC up permanently via the cable I've been dangling along the landing, down the stairs, across the lounge :-)

Thanks for all your help.

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William P. N. Smith 21 years ago

Yeah, it sounds pretty dead, though in a strange way, sendit back for warranty repair. Don't connect your PC to the cable modem without a good firewall, though (which, IMNSHO, means a hardware router), as your PC is laughably insecure.

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ajg_xch 21 years ago

I've been using Zonealarm Pro for quite some time now

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William P. N. Smith 21 years ago

That's nice, but it's only as secure as your underlying OS, which is to say, not at all (IMNSHO). I recommend a hardware NAT router as a minimum to protect yourself from the Internet. YMMV...

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