On Wednesday 08 February 2006 08:30, a tiny voice compelled Ernie Schroder to write: > On Wednesday 08 February 2006 04:36, a tiny voice compelled Michael > Kintzios > > to write: > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Ernie Schroder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: 07 February 2006 21:33 > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Linksys router problems > > > > > > > > gotten rather used to it in the 4 years I've had it > > > > > > working. Any ideas? > > > > > > > You could check the default MTU setting on the router. I > > > > > > use a dlink and > > > > > > > had to lower mine. The default setting was 1500 and I > > > > > > lowered it to 1480. > > > > > > > http://forums.speedguide.net/showthread.php?t=134898 > > > > > > yeah... I played with MTU as well Then I dloaded what was > > > labled as the > > > firmware version that I had been running I installed that and > > > now the router > > > is completely hosed. Somewhere in my travels, I found a > > > description of how to > > > telnet to the router and update. I'm going to see if I can > > > find that and give > > > it another shot. If not, CompUSA has a router for $30. > > I upgraded to the newest version (1.46.02) using tftp and at least the > router is useable, though I still have the previous problems. Linksys has > sent me a link to the version that I had been using, (1.42.6) and I'll try > that today.
well I flashed it with the 1.42.6, and all is well with the default settings. The reason that I wanted to update it in the first place was that it would crash a couple of times a week. When this happened, I couldn't even ping it, let alone access it in a browser. I guess if the crashing returns I'll live with it for a while and keep pushing Linksys for a solution. > > > > -- > > > Regards, Ernie > > > > Your ISP should advise what is the optimum MTU for their gateway > > implementation. Mine for example is 1480. At 1500 I get a lot of > > fragmentation but can still connect. > > > > I have found that upgrading the firmware on embedded routers using the > > provided browser gui can go wrong with some browsers. If I remember > > right the Netgear routers won't upgrade using Konqueror, or earlier > > versions of Firefox, but don't mind Opera. Note: you may need to allow > > all popups in your browser for the upgrade to complete successfully. I > > would at least try to reload the firmware upgrade after a factory reset. > > Actually, I ran into the problem after updating the firmware with IE on the > wife's machine after reading a few warnings about Linux issues. I continued > working on this from the wife's computer due to the inability of various > tech support people to comprehend that I didn't have Internet Explorer, > Outlook or AOL, and it's proximity to the phone. > > > -- > > Regards, > > Mick > > -- > Regards, Ernie -- Regards, Ernie -- [email protected] mailing list
