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Originally Posted by Retrovertigo
Well obviously I'm happy with the replacement as it is working fine - apart from signal range which is very poor compared to the Netgear.
But I'm curious. Gasdfdsaq says one that orange light is flashing constantly (the replacement doesn't do that, you hold down the reset button and as soon as you let go it restarts) you put new firmware on. But with the orange light flashing on is own, I couldn't even see the router wired or wireless.
Part of the problem was of course, that I couldn't connect even with the green lights all on. I could see it, but I couldn't connect to it.
What's the reasoning behind having to do the full reset anyway?
edit: My Netgear WNR2000 was 192.168.1.1 by the way.
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While it won't resolve genuinely faulty hardware sometimes a reset back to factory setting can resolve issues with the firmware itself.
The Dir615 had 3 reset stages
1. Short press and release resets router.
2. Hold for longer about 10seconds and it goes to Factory settings.
3. Hold even longer. about 20 seconds it goes to emergency room mode.
The last mode is for when the router has been "bricked" - for example when a firmware update goes bad. In this mode wifi and dhcp are disabled so you have to connect via ethernet and manually set the ethernet connection to an ip in the routers range to access the router and upload a firmware file.
If you've accidentally put it in ER mode a quick reset normally knocks it back into normal mode