Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Linksys drops settings

I have noticed that several of my small business clients consistently lose their Linksys router settings, affecting their cabled and wireless networks. It happens randomly, with no particular regularity. However, three clients report that this has happened more than once. As they did not know how to access the router settings, they could not have changed them. What they experience is that they can no longer connect to the internet until we go into the router settings and reset them. Sometimes all the settings are gone, but most of the time we just have to tell the router to connect. They are all on DSL.

If this is happening to you, you can check your Linksys settings by opening your browser and entering http://192.168.1.1 into the address bar. It will ask you for a password: If you don't know it, try leaving it blank, or entering "admin" - if neither of these work you may have to reset the router (small button), or call Linksys/Cisco for free support.

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