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Mike Harrison 14-05-2004 13:10

Warning to Linksys BEFSR11/41 users - DON'T install latest firmware!
 
After spending all morning messing with connectivity problems, I would strongly advise users of BEFSR11 and older BEFSR41 (Ver 2) routers to NOT be tempted to install the latest 1.45.7 firmware from the Linksys site - caused me major problems, including very sluggish web access and mailwasher not working.

A search on the net shows many people are having problems with it, and reccommend reverting to 1.44.2 Older versions are hard to find on the linksys site - They can be found here

If you are having problems that you were blaming NTL's general crapress on, and are running 1.45.x, I'd strongly reccommend you try the 1.44.2 firmware (remember to keep a note of your MAC clone adderess and other settings as these are cleared after a firmware upgrade).

Interestingly I've only noticed problems recently, although I upgraded my router quite a while ago.

Eric55 14-05-2004 15:00

Re: Warning to Linksys BEFSR11/41 users - DON'T install latest firmware!
 
When i click the link it trys to acess my network folder

Tezcatlipoca 14-05-2004 18:12

Re: Warning to Linksys BEFSR11/41 users - DON'T install latest firmware!
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Mike Harrison
After spending all morning messing with connectivity problems, I would strongly advise users of BEFSR11 and older BEFSR41 (Ver 2) routers to NOT be tempted to install the latest 1.45.7 firmware from the Linksys site - caused me major problems, including very sluggish web access and mailwasher not working.

A search on the net shows many people are having problems with it, and reccommend reverting to 1.44.2 Older versions are hard to find on the linksys site - They can be found here

If you are having problems that you were blaming NTL's general crapress on, and are running 1.45.x, I'd strongly reccommend you try the 1.44.2 firmware (remember to keep a note of your MAC clone adderess and other settings as these are cleared after a firmware upgrade).

Interestingly I've only noticed problems recently, although I upgraded my router quite a while ago.



When I still used a BEFSR41v2 [I now have a WRT54G], I had connection problems using the v1.45.7 firmware.


Quote:

Originally Posted by Eric55
When i click the link it trys to acess my network folder

The link works fine for me.

Neil 14-05-2004 18:19

Re: Warning to Linksys BEFSR11/41 users - DON'T install latest firmware!
 
Moved to Computers & Technology Discussion Forum.

squiggs1982 14-05-2004 18:26

Re: Warning to Linksys BEFSR11/41 users - DON'T install latest firmware!
 
Hmm? I upgraded to the 1.45.7 frimware months ago and it had the opposite effect. Solved a whole host of problems! :)


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