Hard Crash
The internet went down today. More precisely, my internet went down today, but thats pretty much the same thing. After my counterstrike game froze, and then web pages started timing out on another computer, and I could no longer contact my router, I knew something was up, so I sauntered on down to look at my WRT54G, a wonderful peice of equipment by Linksys that has served me very well. It looked like a scene from a bad sci-fi movie. The lights on the front were blinking randomly, and a red LED marked “Diag” flashed ominously. Except for beeping sounds, and the camera zooming in on the LED (although my eyes did a fairly good representation of this, if I can say so myself), all the bad sci-fi movie elements were there…
Anyway, after I pulled the plug to restart the router, adjusted the antenae jsut so, and returned to my laptop, things still weren’t working quite right. Its then that I noticed a new wireless network, called “linksys” with good signal quality. Wait a second…
Indeed, the WRT54G bit it hard. This was no soft reset, but hardcore no recovery, all-settings-lost, start-over-from-scratch reset.
In other news, the Sonics won, and Firefox remembers form information, so setting up the same port redirects that I had before was remarkably easy.
February 2nd, 2005 at 05:02:27 am
I am human, checked by default? Excellent work.
February 2nd, 2005 at 05:43:55 am
I love it when things go easily.
February 2nd, 2005 at 04:43:20 pm
Most of the linksys boxes have an option to export/import the box’s settings to a file on your computer. If the box does tank, you can just reload your profile.
March 9th, 2005 at 12:20:02 pm
Can I meet you in real life one day?