On Fri, 6 Aug 2010 14:40:55 -0400, in
<(E-Mail Removed)> , "Peter Pan"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>had the same prob (balt area, comcast, cable internet, linksys wrt54g,
>dropped connectivety now and then)...
>in my case it was power to the wireless router (summer, AC power, spikes and
>low voltage when ac's kicked on, not bad enuf to make clocks flash 12, but
>bad enuf to mess up my wrt thing)
>happened to have a battery backed up ups handy, used that instead of the
>wall wart, problem solved
>
>simple free test, to help determine the culprit, next time it is dead,
>unplug the wall wart (from the power plug on the back of the wrt, not the
>wall) and plug it back in again (don't do anything else) if it works again,
>you have narrowed it down to transient voltage fluctuations on the ac
>line/funky wall wart thing
That resets the router, so you've only narrowed it down to the router,
not the power adapter. The only way to narrow it down to the power
adapter is to replace it with a better power adapter.
--
John
"Assumption is the mother of all screw ups."
[Wethern’s Law of Suspended Judgement]
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