Linksys WRT54G and Charter

Labyrinth, on Thursday 11 September 2008 à 23:30:08

Hi,

I've used my Linksys WRT54G wireless router with Charter cable internet for a few years. Small problems here and there but nothing a reboot/power cycle cannot solve. However since yesterday, all of a sudden I can no longer get online with the router. I can get online just fine if I connect the cable modem directly to my computer, but not through a router. The "internet" light on the router just kept blinking semi-rapidly. I've tried resetting the modem and the router numerous times but to no avail. And I didn't change any settings at all since it's been working fine for me for the past few years.

Can anyone help me? Or is it time to get a new router?

I am running Vista with Charter Cable, Motorola SB5101 cable modem (1 month old). Any help is appreciated, thanks!

Configuration: Windows Vista
Internet Explorer 7.0

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halloweendep, on Friday 12 September 2008 à 09:53:34

ok dude just try this with the router start up and connected to your computer,

just open command prompt in wondows and then type in the following command :

ipconfig/release
after that if the ip is not automatically renewed just type:

ipconfig/renew

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labyrinth, on Tuesday 16 September 2008 à 22:15:30

Hi thanks for the reply. I have tried to release and renew but it's still acting the same. Worst yet, I wasn't able to use internet for an entire day no matter what I did. The technicap support asked me to do the same thing (release renew etc) and to no avail. She said for some reason the modem isn't giving me the correct IP address, and she asked me to shut down the modem for an entire night and see if it fixes itself.

The next day, I am able to connect to the internet, but again, I can't do it through a router, only a direct connection.

I'm suspecting the problem is with the modem, does anyone have similar experience?

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a Real engineer, on Thursday 23 October 2008 à 03:38:21

This is a CHARTER problem. I have the SAME linksys with Charter and suddenly, last night, for no reason... Poof! I get piss poor performance through the Linksys but full-speed directly connected. Charter made a change and they're not fessing up to it.

They told me my modem was "antiquated" and the guy hung up on me when I started blowing holes in his script.

Charter sucks but, I'm stuck with them where I live

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cscsjr, on Wednesday 19 November 2008 à 20:51:50

I had the same problem after switching from dsl to cable. I thought the change had something to do with it, but the router worked fine initially (about 5 minutes) then stopped, internet light blinking or fluttering. After many phone calls and attempts to re-configure/reset the router, I broke down and got a new one WRT110 figuring the old one was fried somehow. The new one works fine, but I haven't done anything more with the old one and am still wondering if it's really bad.

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