Restored access to mail.google.com
The problem kept reappearing in many other sites. The internet was somewhat fading away for me. I grew really frustrated and tired of it. Must wreak havoc on someone.
So I reseted the router’s configs. Operations returned to normal immediately! Hurray! It was the god damned router! After reconfiguring the router, I hit the same problem. Hmmm.
So, I recapped the changes.
Can’t be changing the network addresses, that would give linksys a support nightmare.
Changing the passwords goes with the same reasoning.
Could it be some DynDNS client collateral damage? Guess not. If I were to implement it, it would only do some HTTP API calls, or some screen scrapping in the worst case.
Could it be WiFi crypto? WPA2 with TKIP+AES… Why not? It’s cpu intensive (compared to the rest of the stuff it’s doing) and very bug prone. Disabled it, operation normal. Bingo! WPA1 with TKIP? Works just fine. So I settled for it.
Linksys, burn in hell.
PS: Yes, I know. It could be worse. I, too, hit some wacky stuff with routers. Reset the guy, config it, test it. No go. Lather, rinse, repeat. Works. Nobody knows why.
June 17th, 2008 at 12:43 am
Ah, the good old Accelar’s. If only they knew how close they were to go out the network lab’s window. Anyway, I gave up on Linksys quite some time ago. My last router, a 802.11b, when I changed encryption from WEP to WPA it would randomly drop connections, especially the desktop PC, whose wifi adapter was also Linksys.
The place where I’m living in Coimbra also has one of those new small and shiny Linksys’, and it’s rare the day where I don’t have to power-cycle it at least once. Screw them, I say. Screw them in the ear.
June 17th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
Did you try Free/OpenWRT?
July 8th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Not really. Not my router, so I’m not gonna mess with it. Also, that would bind me to providing more tech-support than I’m willing to give. :p