I had been having problems for most of a week with my Internet access being very slow. I finally resolved the issue, and thought I should share it with the group.
The symptoms are that access becomes very slow, with frequent timeouts, and the LED above the router's WAN port flickers very rapidly. This slowness affects both WiFi and hard-wired connections. I have a Linksys E1200 router, and there is a worm currently in circulation, known as the Moon worm, that attacks certain models of Linksys routers, including this one. It doesn't penetrate the actual home network, but spreads router-to-router. It gets in via the default setting of having remote administration enabled, but continues to infect the router even after this setting is disabled. It even persisted after I flashed the router to use DD-WRT. What finally got rid of it was forcing the router to flush its cache by performing what DD-WRT calls a 30-30-30 reset: holding the reset button in for 30 seconds, disconnecting the power for 30 seconds while continuing to hold in the reset button, reconnecting the power, and continuing to hold down the reset buttons for another 30 seconds. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com "Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
