Wireless Router Help

[MC Fatigue]

Re: Wireless Router Help

Yeah, cables can die out too - which people usually forget (even myself). Sometimes it's good to keep a cable around that you know works so that if the router is having problems you can test the cable with a good one - I've had to do that a few times myself, thinking it was my router - but it was the cable instead.

[fishepa]

Re: Wireless Router Help

So the entire time it was a bad cable? Wow.

[bkrich83]

Re: Wireless Router Help

Yeah, cables can die out too - which people usually forget (even myself). Sometimes it's good to keep a cable around that you know works so that if the router is having problems you can test the cable with a good one - I've had to do that a few times myself, thinking it was my router - but it was the cable instead.

Yeah, but unless it gets crimped a Cat 5 cable going out is pretty rare.

[roadman]

Re: Wireless Router Help

So the entire time it was a bad cable? Wow.

My brother-in-law still feels strongly it was the router going bad. He walked me through the Linksys admin/status page and I wasn't getting a connection from the modem to the router.

I just thought it ironic the new router didn't work until I swapped out the old Cat 5 for the new one.

I hooked up the old cables immediately and waited 5 minutes and nothing happened. I just decided to see if something would happen if I put the new cable in.

I don't know if it was a timing issue or not.