Yes. I had actually read that somewhere online when I was trying
everything I could to figure out why it wasn't working. I read of
someone else having problems and that Linksys Tech Support had told
them to reset like this and insert all the settings by hand again. I
tried that, but it still didn't work. That's when I reinstalled the
v1.50.14 firware again.
Ryan Cabanas
NIGG3RH83R wrote:
> Until recently, I had the same router with the 1.52.02 firmware and I never
> had any problems wired or wireless. When you upgraded the firmware, did you
> hold the reset button in in order to reset it back to factory defaults after
> the upgrade? If you get a moment, try that and hope it helps.
>
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> > Not sure if this is the right forum, or not, but I just wanted to post
> > my experience online here for others to hopefully contemplate before
> > deciding to upgrade to this firware.
> >
> > I have the Linksys BEFW11S4 version 4 wireless router. I upgraded to
> > the v1.50.14 firmware the first day I got it. In that time, I ran into
> > the "long passphrase" problem that locks up the router, which is one of
> > the things that the new v1.52.02 firmware is supposed to fix. So I
> > took the router back to the store, exchanged it, upgraded the firmware
> > again to v1.50.14, and shortened my passphrase and my router has been
> > good for a long while.
> >
> > So today I decided to upgrade the to v1.52.02 firmware to "get the
> > latest and greatest" and to fix the other problems, in case I ran into
> > them in the future. Well, I upgraded the firmware and it installed
> > fine. Wireless access was working fine, but then when I rebooted my
> > computer, I couldn't reconnect wirelessly. If I rebooted the router,
> > it would connect, but then if I rebooted my computer again, I couldn't
> > connect wirlessly.
> >
> > So I reinstalled the v1.50.14 firmware version and boom, I could
> > connect wirelessly again. I rebooted my computer to make sure it would
> > reconnect wirelessly successfully and it did. So I tried installing
> > the v1.52.02 firmware one more time, but I had the same wireless
> > connection results, so I went again and put the v1.50.14 firmware back
> > on and that's what will stay.
> >
> > So my personal recommendation is that if your router works just fine
> > for you using the v1.50.14 firmware, leave it alone.
> >
> > Oh yeah, I'm running Windows XP Home SP2 and I'm using the Linksys
> > WPC11 wireless adapter. As compatible as you can get. Hope this helps
> > others.
> >
> > Ryan Cabanas
> >
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