Personal computing discussed
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just brew it! wrote:physical reset. I'm really hoping it didn't screw up this router. The original router would be slow and get stuck while surfing the net. I called AT&T. They said the router is broken, we'll sell you a new one. I didn't want to do that for the price they wanted to charge so I got the actiontec, hoping it would be better. There's not a lot of choices for DSL routers these days.Sounds like the outage may have been accompanied by a power surge which damaged the router. Was the original router always laggy? If not, then the ISP's upstream equipment also may have been affected.
When you say you "restarted the router from the back" do you mean just a physical reset, or do you mean you followed the procedure to reset it to factory settings?
just brew it! wrote:I woke about 1 in the morning and all the power was out. I walked outside and didn't really see or feel anything that should have done all of this. It was just a little windy and that was it.As the next step I'd try resetting to factory settings, then set it up again. But my guess is that the router got fried somehow.
Was there a storm in the area when you had the power outage? Back when I had DSL, the DSL modem got fried during a thunderstorm on two occasions.
toki wrote:just brew it! wrote:As the next step I'd try resetting to factory settings, then set it up again. But my guess is that the router got fried somehow.
Was there a storm in the area when you had the power outage? Back when I had DSL, the DSL modem got fried during a thunderstorm on two occasions.
I woke about 1 in the morning and all the power was out. I walked outside and didn't really see or feel anything that should have done all of this. It was just a little windy and that was it.