I have a Linksys WAG54GS that I bought only a couple of months ago and if it disconnected from the internet the only way I could reconnect is to go status and press connect. Obviously if I wasn’t at home at the time and had access to the router I couldn’t do it and the internet connection to my house would be down until I returned.
This was a real pain as it meant I had no access to my webcam, CCTV system or Sony Locationfree amongst other things.
I tried everything I could think of with the settings. I tried both connect on demand and keep alive but nothing worked so I decided to try their online support and after waiting for more than 30 minutes for an operator they suggested I upgraded the firmware of the router. This has actually solved the problem but what annoys me is I only bought this a couple of months ago and the firmware I had version V1.00.08 needed to be upgrade to V1.00.12 which was released on 06 December 2005!
So why on earth are they shipping routers with firmware over a year old or are they telling me I bought old stock?
I would prefer to think that it was old stock (although I have my doubts) as I can’t believe any responsible company would want to ship routers with firmware which is so out of date and had been upgraded twice to fix known problems.
Well I got round to sorting out my webcam (sort of) and after a lot of messing around found that it was a power supply problem and a bad connection on the heater board that meant sometimes it would work and sometimes it wouldn’t.
I think I’ve managed a temporary fix as best as I could until I can get it fixed properly so although it seems okay at the moment it could go wrong at just about anytime.
While I was fiddling around with it I connected a much more powerful aerial to it so that should stop any bad connection problems hopefully.
Okay, my webcam seems to have been down over the last few days. I’m not really sure what the problem is. It may be a wireless signal problem or something else but because of the level of the lake it means I’d have to get my wellington boots out to investigate.
I’ll give it a couple of days before I brave that to see if the problem resolves itself hopefully but meanwhile please stop emailing me to tell me it’s not working.
Our dustbin didn’t get collected on Thursday due to the snow and ice and we were ever hopeful that it would be collected the next day. That didn’t happen and it hasn’t been collected today (Saturday) either and it isn’t going to be.
I just checked with the council’s website and it says that all cancelled collections will be collected on your next collection day. In other words they aren’t comming until next Thursday and ask we all put our dustbins back inside until then.
Looks like we will have to get some black bags today.
