WAG54G

Jimmy1983 · 3 Mar 2007 at 23:17

Ive also got a home network with the router wired into my pc and ive got my fathers pc downstairs and laptop wirelessly connected. The problem is that I can't see all off the computers connected to my workgroup. Sometimes I can see Dads on my PC, but I can't see either machine on my laptop and on dads, this happens at random times aswell. Restarting sometimes fixes the problem, but not always.

Now before I had WPA I used WEP and I didnt have this problem, the only thing I can think of is when the 'key' changes using TKIP it confuses the other pc's somehow.

All machines have the same workgroup name and also have unique computer names.

Anyone know why I might be having this problem?

Tony Williams · 4 Mar 2007 at 19:23

If your certain it's due to WPA try turning off security and see if that solves anything.

Also updated the firmware? The default wag54g firmware isn't very good.

joeyjojo · 4 Mar 2007 at 19:38

Tony Williams said:
If your certain it's due to WPA try turning off security and see if that solves anything.

Also updated the firmware? The default wag54g firmware isn't very good.

I didn't think there were any unofficial firmware about for WAGxxx routers? If you could suggest one for the WAG354G I'd be grateful.

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Tony Williams · 4 Mar 2007 at 19:46

joeyjojo said:
I didn't think there were any unofficial firmware about for WAGxxx routers? If you could suggest one for the WAG354G I'd be grateful.

There are unoffical firmwares but I didn't mean that, I meant upto date firmware - sorry.

If you have the UK model which is probbely is - update with this;

http://www-uk.linksys.com/servlet/S...940633&pagename=Linksys/Common/VisitorWrapper

Annex A for UK. Annex B, I think is German.

All you need to do is pop in the config and ADMIN > FIRMWARE it should take about 5 minutes and IIRC you don't need to reconfigure everything.

Also Linksys LiveChat have good support and are very helpful.

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Thanks.

joeyjojo · 4 Mar 2007 at 19:55

Apparently I've already flashed it to 1.01.54, not sure how I managed that. I seem to remember using some wierd russian ftp sites though

Tony Williams · 4 Mar 2007 at 19:59

You're probberly using unoffical firmware then. I believe 1.01.11 is the latest offical firmware for that router.

Do you have screenshots of the config screen? (the 192.168.x.x one)

Will the router flash with the offical firmware?

joeyjojo · 4 Mar 2007 at 20:17

Sure, what do you want to see?

Might give the official one a try. Can't be worse really (I hope).

Tony Williams · 4 Mar 2007 at 20:27

No - sorry. I noticed you have a v2 router and not v1.

http://www-uk.linksys.com/servlet/S...888423&pagename=Linksys/Common/VisitorWrapper

You'll need to update to 1.01.57.

Just to be sure, please look underneath the router, below the Linksys logo and near the serial number and MAC address, you have the model number and the possible version. This might say it's a v2

Jimmy1983 · 4 Mar 2007 at 21:20

Tony Williams said:
If your certain it's due to WPA try turning off security and see if that solves anything.

Also updated the firmware? The default wag54g firmware isn't very good.

Ive updated to firmware 1.02.1 (Annex A)

http://www-uk.linksys.com/servlet/S...912994&pagename=Linksys/Common/VisitorWrapper

Also a lot off the time I can't even access the routers set-up page through my main wired pc, this shouldn't be the case. I should be able to access it straight away all off the time. :confused:

Tony Williams · 4 Mar 2007 at 21:22

You either have v1 or v2.

Look underneath the router, below the Linksys logo and near the serial number and MAC address, you have the model number and the possible version. This might say it's a v2 or v1

If it doesn't say anything, chances are it's a v1.

Jimmy1983 · 4 Mar 2007 at 21:41

It's v1.2

joeyjojo · 4 Mar 2007 at 23:06

Tony Williams said:
http://www-uk.linksys.com/servlet/S...888423&pagename=Linksys/Common/VisitorWrapper

You'll need to update to 1.01.57.

Thank you Mr Williams