WRT54G: Dead after a year?

I've had this WRT54G for a year or so, it's worked well since I bought it. However tonight my network just died completely out of nowhere. I couldn't figure out what the problem was, because my router was still getting a DHCP server from the modem and was giving my computers on the network their correct addresses. However, I could not ping/traceroute ANYTHING outside of my network.
I then took my computer and hardwired it straight to the modem. Everything works fine, obviously since I am posting this. I tried soft reseting the router. That did not work. I tried checking all the settings, they were all fine. I tried a hard reset by allowing factory defaults and reconfiguring the entire router again, that also did nothing. I am pretty much assuming the router is dead. I've tried about everything short of opening it up which would not help the situtation.
I guess my question is: Is it normal for a linksys router to die after a year? A lot of the linksys routers I've owned have not lasted more than two years, which in my opinion, is really, really bad. I would suggest Cisco to work on the longevity of their routers, because I'm probably not going to buy one of their products this time.

As you can login to your router's web interface you should first upgrade it's firmware...
Download the Router's firmware from here
Follow these steps to upgrade the firmware on the device : -
Open an Internet Explorer browser page on a computer hard wired to the router...
In the address bar type - 192.168.1.1...Leave the Username blank & in Password use admin in lower case...
Click on the 'Administration' tab- Then click on the 'Firmware Upgrade' sub tab- Here click on 'Browse' and browse the .bin firmware file and click on "Upgrade"...
Wait for few seconds until it shows that "Upgrade is successful" After the firmware upgrade, click on "Reboot" and you will be returned back to the same page OR it will say "Page cannot be displayed".
Now reset your router :
Press and hold the reset button for 30 seconds...Release the reset button...Unplug the power cable from your router, wait for 30 seconds and re-connect the power cable...Now re-configure your router...
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I posted my woes elsewhere but it's true, my hard drive is fried. I had a long chat in Japanese with an Apple Support staff and all he could do was appologize and tell me that if Apple does the repaire that it will cost apron 500 USD; he gave me the number for a couple of other companies that can repair the disk and said I should shop around.
Here's my beef: I had used a Sotec computer for 6 years without incident, leaving it on 24/7 and the cost was nominal. The iMac was 2800 USD and breaks after 2 years. Yeah, maybe I should have bought the Applecare but, honestly, if you're spending that much money on a computer don't you expect that it should be okay for 2 years? Should I be angry?
My first thought is that Apple doesn't make the hardware but then I checked a little here and read, "Because Apple makes the hardware, the operating system, and many applications, Apple products are truly integrated systems". So, whose fault is it? I leave my computer on pretty much 24/7 in an air-conditioned room; I do word processing, surfing and a good bit of FB'ing and that's it. Two years seems exteream.
Costwise I should be fine. I have two warranty options from the store I originally bought it. It just takes time; it's a trust issue, too.
So, tell me if I should be angry at Apple. I honestly won't know until I speak with the English customer service rep and hear their explanation.

SirWalterScott wrote:
My parents still use the tube television they bought in the late 60' in one of their guest rooms and it works just fine. It's that kind of longevity I'd like to expect from a product but this age things are too complex, they're obsolete in a much shorter time span, so I guess it makes sense that it could die in two years.
A lot of it has to do with consumer demand for inexpensive products, especially high tech ones. I have some old "enterprise class" 2 GB SCSI hard drives that probably will outlast any of the SATA ones in any of my current Macs. But they were insanely expensive by current standards, about $70 per GB of capacity, & maybe a tenth as fast as even the cheapest SATA drive on the market today.
Something similar applies to that old TV: in terms of resolution & picture accuracy, it probably cost several times what a contemporary one costs today.
Almost no consumer would accept that kind of price/performance ratio today; in fact, we demand that the price/performance ratio constantly improve or we just won't buy new stuff. For years Apple tried to remain totally aloof from the highly competitive commodity market this creates, & it almost killed the company: Macs lasted practically forever but became just too expensive for most people to afford.
Today, they offer very competitive price/performance ratios; & their unique combination of close hardware/software integration, user friendliness, excellent esthetics, & all the rest of it keep them from becoming just another commodity computer; but consumers still won't pay much of a premium for that, much less for the far less tangible & quite expensive benefits of very long average life expectancy.

Battery pretty much dead after 1 year...

I've had my powerbook for a little over a year and now my battery appears to be already dead. I usually keep it plugged into AC but recently I found that my battery life is about 10 minutes now. I used to get a good couple hours out of it in the past but not now.
Battery Information:
Battery Installed: Yes
First low level warning: No
Full Charge Capacity (mAh): 614
Remaining Capacity (mAh): 613
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Voltage (mV): 12518
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My question is, is this normal for batteries after barely even a year? I purchased the extended apple care protection for the next two years but they are telling me that I have to foot the bill for this one, 98 bucks! And....the new battery will only come with a 90 day warranty so if my battery goes dead again after 90 days, it's coming out of my pocket again.
What's the deal with these batteries! Anyone know the policy on replacing batteries? I've noticed on these forums that some people get their batteries replaced by apple. What's the time frame for getting ur battery replaced for free by APP? even if you've purchased the 2 yr extension plan?
t
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<When calling apple care I specifically asked him whether it was better to leave the laptop plugged in or run it off the battery. He said plugged in with no hesitation.>
I don't know how Apple trains their Tech support personnel, but it seems that there should be some sort of product knowledge training for these people. When in times past, I have called AppleCare, I have gotten knowledgeable representatives and at other times, I question the knowledge a tech supp rep has. It seems hit and miss for me.
According to Apple's own website: http://www.apple.com/batteries/notebooks.html, quoted "Standard Maintenance
For proper maintenance of a lithium-based battery, it’s important to keep the electrons in it moving occasionally. Apple does not recommend leaving your portable plugged in all the time. An ideal use would be a commuter who uses her iBook on the train, then plugs it in at the office to charge. This keeps the battery juices flowing. If on the other hand, you use a desktop computer at work, and save a notebook for infrequent travel, Apple recommends charging and discharging its battery at least once per month. "
With that being said and quoted, it may behoove Apple to require their tech support reps to attend Product Knowledge courses every now and then so they will be handily able to answer our questions.
In terms of Apple recommending charging and discharging the battery at least once per month, don't take to heart that they mean all the way to the sleep state, or below 10%. That will definitely wear your battery out quicker than you would probably want. In my normal use, I usually only allow my computer to discharge to no lower than 15% before I plug it in again, if I can remedy that, or if I have available a power outlet to plug into. If I do discharge below that, I just save my work and just shut down my machine until I can plug in again.
If storing a battery for any length of time, never place it in a freezer. In a refrigerator is fine, with the battery discharge to 40-50% of full capacity. I know this is probably more information than you care to want to know, but I thought about it some more, and I couldn't control the flow of my rambling and typing. LOL.
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Could the battery be dead after one year?

Without any warning my one year old Ipad 2 won't power up. Shouldn't the battery have stopped holding a full charge before that happened? I have not dropped the iPad or had any accident with it. So I'm very surprised that it has stopped working.

You know anything is possible right? And not all iPads are capable of living for 2 - 9 years.
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Have you tried contacting the "Apple"?
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Welcome to the wonderful world of these sub par batteries now.
I have a T61 that is slightly more that a year old, and the battery is rated as Fair (can only hold 78% of it's original charge) - with only 3 cycles.
Very dissapointing considering my T41's battery is more that 3 years old and is rated as good and can hold 105% of it's original charge - go figure.
However, what seems to be key here is what power supply you use. If you use the wrong one, your battery life will be compromised.
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DEAD BATTERIES -AFTER 1 YEAR- TOO EXPENSIVE- ANY SOLUTIONS??

I've had my powerbook just over one year (conveniently just enough to not be covered by "applecare" ) and the battery life has rappidly deteriorated over the last few months, and IS NOW COMPLETELY DEAD!!
Ive noticed alot of other people have this same problem but....
I can't afford to fork out another £90 just to get my powerbook functioning as it should do.
I feel that this is ridiculously poor manufacturing for such an expensive item to be faulty just after a year. I'm begining to trust apple less and less, and I dread phoning up the helpline, as last time something went wrong, they were as much help as hitting your head against a wall and informed me that I had to pay £30 in order to ask them a question!!
What kind of corporate scam are APPLE trying to pull here?/??
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Hi there,
Thanks for the usefull links.
Im affraid I'm still having major problems with my powerbook!
I've been using it with the battery removed on power addapter and a couple of times when Ive let it sleep, I have returned to it a couple of hours later and the fans are wiring away like crazy, the whole thing is realy hot and doesnt respond to wake up. The only thing I can do is take out the power supply and let it cool down.
Then I remembered that the same overheating problem had occurred for the first time just before the battery started playing up. I discovered the PB overheated and unresponsive, and in a few days (maybe even hours) the battery was dead, first reading something like: (1%) , then just: ( x ) in the meter on the toolbar.
Also, I've been reading about re-setting the PMU as you suggested, and it looks like a good idea, but for a couple of things. It says that it "will permanently remove a RAM disk, if present, and all of its contents."
Now Im not too clued up about these things, as you may have guessed, but this sounds bad! Im now a bit confused as to what the RAM disk is for, as I originaly thought it helped proccessing or retriving info from the hard disc or something! But this suggests that it has important things stored on it...(?)
Would you mind filling me in on what exactly this would mean for my files stored on my PB (if anything)?
Another thing that occurred to me (which may not mean anything but...) I noticed in the artical it also said that resetting the PMU also resets the date and time (to 00:00 (GMT), 01 Jan 1970 for computers with Mac OS X). Since my battery died, each time I turn on the computer I am indeed taken strangly back to 1st January 1970 (which would be quite fun if my computer worked- ha ha..) I assumed this was just because there was no battery, so when the power went, the clock data resetted (like in a VCR or something).
But cauld this be anything to do with the PMU? And if the PMU is to blame cauld it be causing the overheating issue aswell?
MOst importantly, is it safe to reset it, or will I loose valuable files?
If you cauld answer any these questions it would be very helpful! Im sorry that ive gone off on a bit of a rant, I just need my computer to work!
Thanks very much for your help,
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Satellite L670 - Hard Disk Dead after 8 months only

Hi,
this morning I had to retunr my laptop due to bad hard disk problem. After 8 months, it's dead already.
The positive points are: I am still under warranty and second the toshiba software hilighted me on time, allowing me to back up my data before the crash. Tks Toshiba for this tool, very usefull.
The question is, how can a hard disk die that quick after just fews months ?
Bad luck or bad use ? I am wondering.
I wish to have a feedback from those who owns same model, L670 (windows 7), to understand if this problem is commun or if I was unluckily concerned.
Also, if there are possible solutions to avoid HD stress in the daily use ? Like for example, reduce writing on it (back up of blu-ray using AnyDvD HD ON hd, then cut&paste to external HD), or to not connect too often external hard disk to avoid electricity surcharge if any ?
In future, will I have to perform chkdsk more often ? Defrag ? If yes, at which frequency ?
This is my 3rd laptop dying, Sony VAIO = mothercard dead after 1.2 years, Fujitsu Amilo xi = explosed after 3 years, and now Toshiba HD after 8 months.
From 900EUR up to 1600EUR, I do not see a significative resistance of one of those models, Sony was the badest ever in terms of video card longevity and compatibility (games unplayable after 2 months, no driver update), keyboard "painting" was a mess with deterioration after fews months compared to Fujitsu and Toshiba (no pb). Toshiba L670 more recent, was the best in terms of game compatibility.
What to do ? Stop buying laptop or use it only fews hours a day with a PC on top ?
For time beeing I can't afford to have a PC + a laptop as I am unemployed, surviving with 10EUR/day,
time to find a job again.
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You're not the only one.
I bought an L670 in September last year. It was strictly for home use as replacement for a desktop PC, so it was never moved.
Just after a few weeks things started to go wrong: boot fails, programs crashing, Windows 7 crashing...
It's almost 7 months now since purchase and I'm writing this message on the very same notebook with 'Hard Disk Sentinel' running in the background, reporting more bad sectors every day. It tells me that hard disk health is now down to only 9% and that it has an estimated 14 days to live.
Since the notebook is technically still running fine, I don't think I can have the HDD replaced under warranty or am I wrong? Does the HDD have to cease working alltogether before I can have it replaced under warranty?

Mid-2010 battery dead after 629 cycles?!?

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I'm hesitant to think the battery has just failed, because like I mentioned, there are only 629 cycles on it, and it was working prefectly before, and it seems very sudden.
Any help/thoughts/suggestions are appreciated!
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Make an appointment at the genius bar. Have you fully discharged and recharge fully over the battery's 2 yr life? This is good to do a few times a year.
http://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro/service/battery/ shows the cost of replacing your battery.

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After 13 years, can no longer recommend HP - Chronic MB problems on dv6t-7000 unheeded by HP support

I couldn't find anywhere else to voice this - my dv6t-7000 is just out of warranty and thus I don't qualify for email support. I have spent the past year in a back and forth battle with HP customer support and am finally calling it quits after 13 years of exclusively buying from them and recommending them to less tech-savvy friends and family.
I ordered this laptop around July 2012, eager to check out the benefits of Seagate's new 2nd-gen hybrid drives. Laptop arrived and was blazing fast, but starting getting some STOP errors (blue screens) pretty soon. Because this was coupled with hard drive errors, I didn't bother to dig too much into the problem and instead contacted HP, who (very quickly) shipped me a service box. I send them my laptop and get it back a couple of weeks later, but can't figure out what they changed (I later found out they just reflashed the BIOS).
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I ended up sending the laptop to HP a third time, after clarifying the issue with the support reps I spoke with and giving them detailed instructions of the problems I had been observing, which seemed to point to a faulty hard drive cable or a related issue with the motherboard itself. The rep was very friendly and promised to relay this information to support before they got their hands on my laptop. Sent it in and again - no difference except a freshly installed operating system.
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Currently, I cannot install Windows 8.1 and still experience KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR and CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED stop errors every 2-3 hours. I had one while writing this post, so hopefully I haven't forgotten to include anything. I don't mean to lay all of the blame on HP, but I don't like not having my input listened to or considered. It seems counterintuitive to me - this process could have taken 2 weeks to resolve instead of multiple months to fail and lose a customer in the process.
I bought HP knowing fully well that I was paying for high-end parts and not necessarily build quality. That's never been a problem in 13 years of buying laptops and PCs from them, as well as recommending them to friends and family - we know how to take proper care of expensive technology. But I'm realizing now that when you do get a dud, HP support seems to do everything in its power not to have to replace your laptop even when it's warranted. I will use this laptop until it can no longer function (hopefully a couple of months at least) and then consider another company for the first time in a long time. On the desktop end - well, I've been meaning to build a PC for a while now.

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Iphone 4 no audio after 1 year (warranty expired)

I bought 2 Iphone 4 in 2010 from Digi Centre, Queensbay Mall in Penang state, Malaysia. The warranty has past 1 year expired date. Today one of the Iphone 4 purchased finally get the problem of no ringing tone. When plug in the headphone, the audio is working fine. The Digi Centre said it will take 2-3 weeks to get it fix as they need to send to headquarter to probe the problems.
Meanwhile, they borrow me an old Nokia handphone. It is a sad experience when your experience of today technology come to a halt due to this, i heard some 4S unit also having the same problem with no ringing tone, after some time. Hope they can develop patches to solve this stupid hardware audio issue, it bring alot of inconveniences to me.
The other unit of Iphone 4 is working properly.
Very unfortunate, the local service centre has no immediate fix or solution, my impression of Apple product has drop as it is made in China, some batch are faulty they didn't pay enough attention to the quality mission they pledged.
Should I change to Iphone 4S or wait for Iphone 5 because I already sad with my Iphone4 case after 1 year this stupid hardware defect start to creep in my life as a result I'm punished for 2-3 weeks of inconveniences, probably will have to pay more to get it repair as warranty has lapsed after 1 year. Thanks to all the China good and quality control that we have to experience inconveniences after 1 year.
I'm likely to wait for Iphone 5 for longer battery and better patch hopefully to address the hardware audio suddenly die off after 1 year by itself.

It only take a day to get things checked and fix. The Chairman of the branch Mr. Ricky Ooi has helped me to replace the buzzer. Apparently some water vapor leaked into the buzzer, fortunately it doesn't sip into the main board.
For all Penang Iphone4 folks who accidentally or somehow like my case, please visit the shop to get on time replacement and fixes.
Very thankful for his team support, and now I don't have to live without Iphone4 for 2-3 weeks as was told earlier when i surrendered my iphone4. Now I will look for him and seek his advise to upgrade to Iphone 4S or wait for Iphone 5, this case really awakened me to be cautious next time.

I have an optical mouse that came with my Mac Pro plugged into the USB port on the keyboard. After a year of working normally, the trackball all of a sudden stopped scrolling down. It scrolls up just fine, but not down. Any thoughts?

I have an optical mouse that came with my Mac Pro, the only thing plugged into the USB port on the keyboard. After a year of working normally, the trackball all of a sudden stopped scrolling down. It scrolls up just fine, but not down. Any thoughts?

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