koldchillah
09-30-03, 02:49 PM
Well, I finally learned my lesson about procastinating over UPS battery replacements. Lightning hit me hard last week and took out my main rig's onboard 3COM NIC as well as my cable modem & almost my router. I'm thinking it must have come through my cable, fried the modem and then damaged my router and took out one of the NIC's on my network.
The modem was replaced, I threw a spare Intel NIC in my main rig and I was back up and running except my router is behaving funny now. The lights no longer blink at all and one of the ports doesn't light up at all despite it still functioning.. All other lights are always solid even during traffic. Also, I can't get into the router's config anymore.. Explorer crashes while attempting to load the page. Other than that, the darn thing is still running like a champ performance wise. Regardless, I need to be able to get into the config pages b/c I have DHCP disabled at the moment and I want to turn it back on.. I tried getting into the router on the other 3 PC's in my room and I get the same thing.. it locks up explorer. Strangest thing I've ever seen a router do.
So basically I'm probably going to upgrade to a better router now anyways. It was a Netgear RT314 and it has served me very well the past few years. It never locked up or needed rebooting and it was very easy to configure for the most part. I'm looking to replace it with something perhaps a little more 'heavy duty'.
hmm, perhaps a Cisco SOHO 91 so I can play with IOS software?..
I want stateful-inspection firewall, built-in switch, and the best traffic handler I can get for under $300. Bring on the suggestions! :)
The modem was replaced, I threw a spare Intel NIC in my main rig and I was back up and running except my router is behaving funny now. The lights no longer blink at all and one of the ports doesn't light up at all despite it still functioning.. All other lights are always solid even during traffic. Also, I can't get into the router's config anymore.. Explorer crashes while attempting to load the page. Other than that, the darn thing is still running like a champ performance wise. Regardless, I need to be able to get into the config pages b/c I have DHCP disabled at the moment and I want to turn it back on.. I tried getting into the router on the other 3 PC's in my room and I get the same thing.. it locks up explorer. Strangest thing I've ever seen a router do.
So basically I'm probably going to upgrade to a better router now anyways. It was a Netgear RT314 and it has served me very well the past few years. It never locked up or needed rebooting and it was very easy to configure for the most part. I'm looking to replace it with something perhaps a little more 'heavy duty'.
hmm, perhaps a Cisco SOHO 91 so I can play with IOS software?..
I want stateful-inspection firewall, built-in switch, and the best traffic handler I can get for under $300. Bring on the suggestions! :)