- Jan 14, 2014
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Yesterday my wireless went dead, and after noticing my old TrendNet's status lights were all out despite being plugged in, I went out and got a new Belkin N300.
After hooking it up, I had a wireless signal, but also a couple problems: first, my network was now called "Racheal & Duke2009" instead of whatever gibberish the default is - at first I thought this was a neighbor, but it hadn't been there a minute earlier so I tried to connect, and sure enough it accepted the password listed on the bottom of the router. Fair enough, but the second problem was that I couldn't access the router settings, either via its IP address or by going to http://router - both reacted like I was going to non-existant pages. Figuring this would be a problem in the future that should probably be addressed now, I held the reset button down for what felt like a huge portion of my life, then tried again.
Now I'm getting no signal at all, the status light doesn't come on, only the tiny blue one near the WPS button. I'm only on now via direct ethernet connection to my modem - I even tried just using the 4-port hub on the Belkin as an extender, since my modem is a bit hard to reach with my laptop, but nada - the first two ports do nothing, the third makes the status light glow orange indefinitely, and the fourth actually makes it go blue, but the laptop tries and fails to connect indefinitely.
Also, connecting to the modem directly now lists my connection as Racheal & Duke2009. So thanks for that, Belkin. Cool. I'd reset the modem itself, but after the last disaster I'm terrified to touch anything else, and the only other thing I can think to do is upgrade the Belkin's firmware, but that seems to require accessing the router's web interface, which I can't do.
After hooking it up, I had a wireless signal, but also a couple problems: first, my network was now called "Racheal & Duke2009" instead of whatever gibberish the default is - at first I thought this was a neighbor, but it hadn't been there a minute earlier so I tried to connect, and sure enough it accepted the password listed on the bottom of the router. Fair enough, but the second problem was that I couldn't access the router settings, either via its IP address or by going to http://router - both reacted like I was going to non-existant pages. Figuring this would be a problem in the future that should probably be addressed now, I held the reset button down for what felt like a huge portion of my life, then tried again.
Now I'm getting no signal at all, the status light doesn't come on, only the tiny blue one near the WPS button. I'm only on now via direct ethernet connection to my modem - I even tried just using the 4-port hub on the Belkin as an extender, since my modem is a bit hard to reach with my laptop, but nada - the first two ports do nothing, the third makes the status light glow orange indefinitely, and the fourth actually makes it go blue, but the laptop tries and fails to connect indefinitely.
Also, connecting to the modem directly now lists my connection as Racheal & Duke2009. So thanks for that, Belkin. Cool. I'd reset the modem itself, but after the last disaster I'm terrified to touch anything else, and the only other thing I can think to do is upgrade the Belkin's firmware, but that seems to require accessing the router's web interface, which I can't do.
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