router issues - URGENT HELP NEEDED!!!!

Kavalree

Kavalree

Kavalree

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Help!

Moved my living room around and re-connected internets and its broke. It cycles on and off, wireless will flash on and then the stupid router reboots, i have no spare to try, how can i fix it?
 
If the reset doesn't work try swapping the filters and if that fails just try the router in the main test socket.

Then if it still won't connect you'll have to call your ISP.

I've been having an issue like this for 12months. My connection can be perfect staying up for months at a time but if the connection is lost the router keeps restarting over and over again. Usually it can take an hour or two to connect and then when it does it will be fine again until the next disconnection when I have to repeat the process.

Last Saturday it still wouldn't connect after 10 hours and over 400 attempts according to O2. They did get it working but it has still been dropping now and then.

I did have a spare router and the result was the same.
 
Check your power socket and that the PSU is plugged in properly both ends if router is rebooting. Try a different power socket. Broadband issues shouldnt cause the router to reboot.
 
It is plugged in properly, and even tried other plug sockets, still the same. Tried new filter and hard reset, still the same. Sky are sending another router out, said it will take 3-5 working days.

If I buy a cheap (~£30) router from OCUK, would it be better than the netgear they send me again, as I would like wireless N.

EDIT: I have bought this router and this wireless card. Just hope they work together, if not, I can send them back. Just a race to see which gets here first, cheapo Wireless G, or shiny fast Wireless N. Only want N so I can drop this ethernet cable going from router->window->up wall->window->PC.

But until then, my iPhone will have to suffice, got my PC limping along on the iPhones 3G after I tethered it on a trail version of MiWi 4.0 on the iPhone.
 
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Just a thought............

When you moved everything around, you did plug the router back into the correct AC adapter didn't you!?
The weird behaviour and powering off over and over sounds like maybe an incorrect (amp/volt) adapter.

Sometimes, the solution is the simplest/silliest :)

I have piles of old routers and adapters and often see this type of thing when I'm trying to pair up a router to the correct adapter. I wish they'd label the adapters with the routers make/model number too ;)
 
Turns out I had plugged the wrong power cable in...oh well, got a spare router in the post, and just need to get my username and password for skybb to use my Belkin i bought. How would I go about this?
 
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