WRT600n

My laptop is currently using a Netgear USB WG111v2 802,11g wireless adapter (the laptop's internal wirless G adapter died) with the WRT600N. Usually on powering up the laptop, I initially can't get any internet access at all, even though the Netgear adapter software application indicates that it is connected to the internet. So, I go through the ritual of powering off the computer, the DSL modem and then the router. I then power up in the reverse order. This almost always fixes the problem until the next time I try to login. When I do, I have to repeat the ritual. Once the connection is established I don't have any problems at all. I have carefully looked through the setup features of the router and the network adapter, but have not noticed anything out of the ordinary. SOME SETTINGS: SSID broadcast: disabled; 5.6GHz Wireless: disabled; 2.4GHz network: enabled for "G" only; fixed channel broadcast on Ch 10; using router in DHCP mode; wireless security is WPA2. Most of the remaining settings are at default. Does anyone out there have any suggestions or ideas as to the cause of this problem? I'm planning the acquire a 802.11N adapter, but if this problem can't be resolved before I do that, then I'm not sure I will.

Try using WEP as the security code ... after changing the security key ,,, again try connecting the network ....

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ISSUE With my WRT600N Wireless Router --

Hello, I am having trouble with my Wireless Router. It is the WRT600N model Linksys Router and the issue I am specifically having is my wireless access. I have several devices which access wirelessly and am starting to have more and more issues of late, not sure why...?
I was wondering how to configure each device accessing my wireless net individually as I have Network MAgic asnd have seen a couple of the items on my network with the same ip addresses. I would like to assign a number to each device and see if that eliminates the issues I have been experiencing..?
I have looked through these question pages and have not found the answer I was looking for so I hope this has not been asked before. I also saw a post that kind of caught my interest and it was regarding using two WRT600N's routers together for better range etc. I have an issue with raqnge on my system and have an old WRT54 Router and would like to know if I could do the same thing with this and incorporate this router into my system as a wireless access point (WAP) only. If this is possible, what would the steps be to accomplish this...
My main issue I chose to writer about here was recently experienced when I got an Ipad and my Ipad has issues remaining connected to my WRT600N Router and I checked my network program and noticed that it was assigned the samw IP address as one of my boys X-Boxes. I believe currently we have approximately 9-11 devices that periodically connect wirelessly to my network. Some devices are PSP's and only occassionally connect and I have NEVER seen all the devcices connect at the same time. I believe the max at once would be approximately 5-6 devices. Is this too many at once...? Is the router overloaded with the amount of devices I have connected...?
Please let me know what you would recommend for my situation,
Darius Taylor
[email protected]

2 wireless routers can not communicate wirelessly with each other.
You need to connect cable between 2 routers and use the second wireless router as access point.
Follow this link to connect Linksys router to another router.
Some of your devices are getting same IP address. This might be the issue with DHCP server of the router. You can try DHCP reservation on the router so that each device will get unique IP address.

WRT600N Wireless n 5Ghz range much less than the second channel 2.4 Ghz

I just bought the WRT600N a few days back and have finally got it working so that all my devices (mac mini wireless g, i2eye Phone wireless g, thinkpad wireless b, etc... and Mac book pro wireless n, apple tv wireless n etc...) connect well and are working well from a close range. I went thru some of the same discoveries as some on this forum went thru. The 2.4 Ghz was the most annoying. I had to manually set the channel to 6 to get a number of devices to connect. That was after quite a bit of frustrating debugging.
My current setup:
All SSID's are set to specific names Use Mac Filtering without any security.
The 5Ghz channel is set for Wireless n mode only (Would like to get a dedicated 300 MB/s connection for the n devices. That is why I bought the dual channel router)
All other settings are default
I see it set on Wide channel 40MHz channel 38
Standard channel 36
broadcast enabled
The 2.4Ghz is set in mixed mode
It is set to Standard 20Mhz with a fixed channel 6
broadcast enabled
The problem I am having is as I go into my bedroom upstairs or in my basement the Wireless n 5Ghz channel is at best flaky and either the signal is dead or I get dropped connections. In many cases you can't even see the SSID. On the other hand the 2.4 Ghz signal works from all these locations fine and with even the furthest points in the house getting atleast 3 bars out of 5. However, many of these far devices are being used for streaming video and the b or g network is unacceptable.
I used to have a dlink mimio router and the b g network from that was as strong if not better. It goes without saying that I have scanned the forum for all possible suggestions.
The firmwares are the latest and greatest and the router now is sitting on top of a book case that gives it a good height and visibility. It however is in one corner of the house and I don't have a choice there. Fundamentally the problem is that the wireless n is not working from the same places the wireless g signals are strong?? I have played with changing the settings on the 5 GHz channel but nothing seems to work. My apple tv in the basement can't even see the wireless n ssid?? while the wireless g has almost full strength. That said when you are within a certain distance of the router the wireless n works well and is great. So it is clearly a range issue??
If I don't hear from anyone this one is certainly going back...
Thanks, MM
Message Edited by mmutreja on 03-09-2008 02:34 PM

There is no channel 161 for the Linksys's N portion. If you choose Wideband, it offers you 3 choices... Auto(DFS), channel 38 or channel 46 and that's it.
Message Edited by Chuck_IV on 04-07-2008 11:51 PM

Blue Screen after installing WRT600N

I have been running two wired high-end machines for over a year with an old Linksys 10/100 wired and wireless B Router. I wanted to get the wired and wireless speed a bit faster so I bought the WRT600N mainly for the Gigabit switch and the USB port. I went through the install wizard and got it configured. But I am having numerous issues with this new router that my old trusty Linksys router never did with the same configuration. I will enter different post for each issue if I can’t find help searching the forum.
1.       I started to get the following:
       Blue Screen error: “IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUALL”
a.       I first started getting this error on the machine running the Linksys Advisor software. The Machine is running the 64 bit version of Vista so I thought maybe the software did not like Vista or the 64 bit version. This machine is wired to the gigabit switch on the WRT600N. But then my other machine got the same Blue Screen Error. It has a gigabit Nic and is not running the Linksys Advisor. This second machine has been stable and has never had a Blue Screen on XP or Vista 32 Bit. So when it got this same error I ruled out that my Vista 64 bit machine had a problem with a piece of hardware or a specific software application. With both of these machines with gigabit NICs that ran fine on the old Linksys B router now getting this Blue Screen Error a bit longer than a year after I installed Vista. And I have added no new hardware or software to the Vista 32 bit machine for years other than Windows Updates, but this machine doesn't have Vista SP1 install where the 64 bit machine does. The 32 bit machine is a Dual Xeon CPU machine that is rock solid.
So does anyone know what might be the issue here? I have been in Technical support for years before I moved up to Director of Product Management and Marketing but I still keep up with the latest new software and hardware and after working on this for a few months I believe it has to be this new Linksys WRT600N router, but if someone else has seen this and fixed this and it is not the new WRT600N please let me know what you did.
Lastly, I searched the forum and read all that I could find on this error message and nothing was helpful in my situation as these aren’t laptops moving from network to network they are desktop machines. I also did some Google searching but no luck.
Oh, and by the way I don’t know if the router is misconfigured or broken but my old 10/100 seemed faster on file transfer/etc. than this supposed Router with a Gigabit switch. Anyone have any ideas on that please let me know as well.
I am running WPA-Personal, maybe the encryption is slowing things down…. Who knows….
Thanks for any help and since there is no new firmware I figure this router may still have some bugs and maybe this might be one.

I'm completely exhausted.
I cant make this "outstanding, the most powerfull" soundcard work.
The last thing was - i deleted all the creative soft and installed only the driver. After system comes, and windows desktop is visible, the computer freezes and only hard reset can wake it up.
What the problem is??
I've sent this issue with my system configuration to creative, filled the form on the site.
Just NO RESPONCE. Should I just throw my soundblaster away?

Time Machine running on Linksys WRT600n with external drive.

Hey Folks,
After searching the internet for the answer on how to setup OS X Time Machine on my Linksys WRT600n with storage link, and finding nothing or only parts of what I needed, I finally got it to work. Hopefully this will help you in your setup.(this should work for any linksys routers with storage link.)
1) First you will need to attach your external USB drive to the Linksys Router, and format it using the linksys utility. This will format the drive as fat32 so it can be access by the mac and the router.
2) You now need to create a share on the drive using the Linksys utility (I called mine "TimeMachine") and grant R&W permission to it. I found and article that said you have to create a group called "root" and a user called "root" within that group, then grant the group R&W access to you share. I did this but I am not sure if its required. you may be able to edit the default "admin" account.
3) Once you have the share created you should be able to access the share from your mac by logging into it using your (Linksys) "root" account and password. Make sure you can save a file here. You maybe able to create a folder but make sure you can save a file (.doc for example).
4) Apple has blocked the use of unsupported drives in Time machine so you will have to make a change for this to work. open a terminal window and type the following in one line:
defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
Hit enter, and close terminal.
5) For some reason Time Machine will have issues creating the .sparse bundle Disk required for the backup over the network. So you will have to create it yourself. Safely unplug the USB drive from the router and plug it into your mac. Open disk utility (applications > utilities > disk utility) and create one the same size as your external drive.
parameters:
- Volume name: "Time Machine" (has to be this to work)
- Mac OS Extended (Journaled);
- No partition map
- sparse bundle disk image
Make sure the sparse bundle is in the share folder. If Time Machine had created this sparse bundle it would named it after your machine. You will have to rename it accordingly. This is the required format 'computername'_'mac address without colons'.sparsebundle
(eg. "joe's MacBook Pro_000000000000.sparsebundle")
6) Once all the above is complete you can reattach the drive to the router, and attach to the share again from your mac. Open Time Machine and you should see your share. Setup Time Machine to use this drive. You may want to be connected using Ethernet for the first backup as it may take a while.
I have found the wireless backup to take a bit of time to prepare and run but it seams to work nonetheless. The slowness could be caused by the difference in mac addresses from wired to wireless. So you may want to change the sparse bundle file name depending on how you are accessing time machine.
Hopefully this will work for you as it did for me.

I am afraid I have to pour some cold water on your enthusiasm.
Yes, what you say can get TimeMachine working, but there is a nasty snag:
WRT600N uses FAT32 for its external harddrives and (regretably) understands nothing else. FAT32 has two restrictions:
1) Maximum file size is 4GB
2) (a lesser-known one) Maximum number of files in a directory of 65,535.
The first restriction isn't really a problem because Time Machine organizes its data in 8MB "bands", which are files within your sparsebundle directory.
The second restriction, however, will cause Time Machine to eventually hit a brick wall: The sparsebundle bands are given a sequence number in hexadecimal and there isn't really a limit to how many you can have. If you run Time Machine on a large harddrive attached to the WRT600N, you will eventually run into a situation where you are hitting the 65,535-files-in-a-directory limit. Time Machine will, therefore, run for a while and then suddenly fail for no apparent reason.
Given the parameters of Time Machine, you can't run Time Machine reliably on a WRT600N with an external harddrive larger than 8MB * 65535 = 512GB. If that's good enough for you, then great. If not, you can do one of two things:
1) Get something that doesn't format its harddrive in FAT32.
2) Install DD-WRT on your router (thus voiding its warranty), fight with it for a while in order to get SAMBA running on it, and gain the ability to format your harddrive in Ext2.
I hope this helps somebody.

Bug in WRT600N Firmware: password edit

I discovered a bug in the current WRT600N firmware. When changing the router's password, special characters appear to NOT be recognized, even though the router's error message lists them. For example, if I use a + (plus) sign the router complains. I had no problems with the WRT310N in using a plus sign as part of the password.

I'm getting very similar problems, with the situation not limited to files but to entire folders.
Used the web interface to create shares and created folders within those shares from both an XP pro box and a Vista box. Now, though both boxes can SEE the folders, neither can read or write anything within those folders.
Using the Web interface to create another new share makes a read/writeable share that works -- for what length of time I'm not yet sure.
This is with a new maxtor onetouch. Original files and folders worked fine, but now, completely broken.
I'm running the .35 firmware, too. This thing has other bugs as well.
DATE STAMP is wrong unless you leave time zone to GMT. For some reason, it reads system clock as GMT, and sets time from there.
Certain bits of the web interface lead to "page not found" errors, too.
Probably going to have to return this thing to the store, as this (non) functionality was one of the main reasons I spent the dough on the product. Doesn't work, back it goes.

WRE54G wireless extender problem with WRT600N wireless router

My Vista laptops work fine with the WRT600N router but not with the WRE54G extender. On the other hand my XP laptop works fine with the wireless extender so I know that both router and extender are working. Linksys tech support told me that the WRE54G is not compatible with the WRT600N, which is simply not true. With my XP laptop the signal goes from poor (5-10 Mbps) without the extender to excellent (54 Mbps) with the extender. Also, the lower blue light on the extender blinks indicating data transmission. I can access the setup page of the extender only with the XP laptop and wired desktop computers but not the Vista laptops. I suspect there is a Vista network setting that is the problem. I've turned off the firewall but to no avail. I've also switched between mixed mode and G-only, which made no difference. Anybody have any suggestions?

pfl wrote:
I have a secure wireless network (WPA). Perhaps my 4-5 year old XP laptop is the only laptop on the planet that works with the WRE54G-WRT600N combination. But I can assure all the doubters that this laptop categorically works flawlessly when I would otherwise be out of range without an extender. Good luck to spalaw. Please let me know if you are get your WRT160n to work with the WRE54G, especially you're able to connect with a Vista laptop.
Hi
I am Afraid and wont be surprised if ya all people are nt able to use a N series Router with a G series Range Expander !
the Reasons is simple - N series is not BackWard Compatible as u check out the sources around. (Back Ward Compatible means compatible with the previous versions for its wireless Band , e:g - G band and B band.)
as far as my experience is concerned regarding the Range Expanders , me and my bud wasted a whole Week Configuring a WRT350N and WRE54G v3 , and it worked somehow on the seventh day for an hour and Lost the connection again! Dayumm !
and we tried setting up with the same expander with WRT54GS v7.2 , it worked like a charm.
Conclusion : " WRE54G is a g series 2.4 Ghz expander which will work fine with all g series router though may not work with N Serious routers."
and if you really wish to Use something which can actually Extend the range for ur N routers signals , Better go for WAP4400N !!!!!!
And if someone still wish to run around , wanna try some tweaks (which i dont preferr )!
for WRT600N , just enable 2.4ghz band . as Range expander doesnt support 5 Mhz.
Use Only standard Channels . e.g : 1,9,3,11 .(No Wide and stuff.)
Try using WEP encryption first . (cause thats how we made WRT350N worked for a while. sighs)
At last , Wish u Luck.
Pe@c3
"What u Give , is wht u better start expecting to take back".. - http://Forsakenbliss.wordpress.com

WRT600N USB Storage Problems Solved

For a couple of years, I've been living with all the problems others have reported with the WRT600N USB storage - lost connections, permissions problems, rebooting the router to recover access to the USB drive, etc. I solved my problems, mostly, by switching to a DLink DIR-655 router. I assume other routers in the Dlink family that support USB devices will perform similarly.
My main problem seemed to be interference from the microwave, which is in an open kitchen/keeping room arrangement in my house. However, the bottom line is that any time I lost wireless connectivity to the router, due to the microwave or unknown causes, I'd lose access to the USB drive. This meant a trip upstairs to power cycle the router and the USB drive several times a day.
With the Dlink, I still sometimes lose wireless connectivity due to the microwave or unknown causes, but not as often. Sometimes, but not always, this will cause me to lose the USB drive access. If I do need to reboot the router, I can do so from the web based interface, something that was not possible with the WRT600N, so no more trips upstairs to perform this operation. I also find have a stronger wireless signal in my work location with the Dlink.
Dlink uses a SharePort software utility to manage the USB connection and this has to be installed on all PC's that want access to the USB device. SharePort makes a USB device appear to be a local device attached directly to the computer you're using and you can attach external drives/printers/probably USB hubs. (I've experimented only with an external USB drive.) Because of this, however, only one computer can attach to the USB device at a time - not a problem for me, but you need to be aware. The software has a mechanism for requesting access to the USB device from one computer, when the device is in use by another computers. You can also set it to automatically connect to the USB device if its available, to try a reconnect if connection is lost, and to automatically run a program when the USB device connects. Dlink says SharePort will support FAT or NTFS formatted drives and there's no known limitation on the drive size.
Dlink support doesn't seem much better than here - it took about three weeks for me to get an answer on the external drive size and formatting options. There are plenty of complaints on the Dlink support site about poor support, poor performance of SharePort, etc. So, all I can say is their router/USB device sharing has worked much better for me than my Linksys WRT600N ever worked.

Welcome to the WRT600N nightmare. The Storage Link is poorly documented, and the firmware controlling it has issues. Basically, it will corrupt file date/times stamps whenever you copy files onto the attached drive. It has also been known to be a bit flaky about maintaining the drive as a connected/mapped drive. Backup programs may have difficulty accessing the drive via Storage Link. Depending on the file format you use, you may encounter file size limitations on the Storage Link drive.
I, personally, gave up after a few days of these issues mentioned above and bought extra USB hard drives for each computer in the house rather than try and use the Storage Link as a NAS.
What O/S are you using on your computer? I can try and walk you through the setup.
A+ Certified, over 15 years of hands on computer and home networking experience...and I still get lost!

WRT600N WRT310N PPTP will not work in some cases

Hello All,
This is more of a warning than a request for help. If you are using the WRT600N or the WRT310N and you need to use PPTP VPN connections, these are not the routers for you!
The PPTP support only work with MS PPTP Servers, it does not work with other VPN routers such as Nortel Contivity's and others.
Please read other threads in this forum, in most cases the wireless connectivity does not work properly, and the router is prone to freeze, requiring it to be hard booted often.
(Mod note: Edited due to non-compliance to forums guidelines.)
Message Edited by OnnagokorO on 05-24-2008 08:37 PM

Just to update everyone... Firmware Version 1.01.36 Build 3 does not fix the PPTP issues with the WRT600N router.

WRT600N(V1.0) and LG BD390 Blu-Ray player...

For some reason the LG BD390 is not seeing both access points to the WRT600N. It is only seeing whatever the FIRST one is set to. So if I set the top one to G, it will see it as G and if I set it to N, it will see it as N and will connect fine. However, setting the first as G and the second to N(which is the only possibility), the LG BD390 fails to see the N Access Point. Even turning OFF the first(G) access Point and only running the 2nd, the BD390 still won't see it. It only sees the first.
Obviously this seems to be an issue with the LG BD390, as nothing else I have, has this issue(I have submitted it to LG), but my question is, is there any way to run N as the first Access Point and G as the sesond? I don't have the option to set the second access point to G, only N or A.
Beyond that, is there any potential router setting(s) that I could try, that may allow the LG to see the 2nd access point?
Thanx

Adjust the Wireless Settings...
Open an Internet Explorer browser page on your wired computer(desktop).In the address bar type - 192.168.1.1 and press Enter...
Leave username blank & in password use admin in lower case...
For Wireless Settings, please do the following : -
Click on the Wireless tab
2.4GHz Wireless Settings :
-Here select manual configuration...Wireless Network mode should be mixed...
-Provide a unique name in the Wireless Network Name (SSID) box in order to differentiate your network from your neighbours network...
- Set the Radio Band to Wide-40MHz and change the Wide channel to 9 and Standard Channel to 11-2.462GHz...Wireless SSID broadcast should be Enabled and then click on save settings...
Please make a note of Wireless Network Name (SSID) as this is the Network Identifier...
For Wireless Security : -
Click on the Sub tab under Wireless > Wireless Security...
Change the Wireless security mode to WPA, For Encryption, select AES...For Passphrase input your desired WPA Key. For example , MySecretKey , This will serve as your network key whenever you connect to your wireless network. Do NOT give this key to anyone.
NOTE : Passphrase should be more that 8 characters...
Click on Advanced Wireless Settings
Change the Beacon Interval to 75 >>Change the Fragmentation Threshold to 2304 Change the RTS Threshold to 2307 >>Click on "Save Settings"...
5GHz Wireless Settings :
Wireless Network mode should be mixed...
-Provide a unique name in the Wireless Network Name (SSID) box in order to differentiate your network from your neighbours network.
Set the Radio Band to Wide-40MHz and change the Wide channel to 46 and Standard Channel to 48-5.240GHz...
For Wireless Security : -
Click on the Sub tab under Wireless > Wireless Security...
Change the Wireless security mode to WPA, For Encryption, select AES...For Passphrase input your desired WPA Key. For example , MySecretKey , This will serve as your network key whenever you connect to your wireless network. Do NOT give this key to anyone and remember the key.
NOTE : Passphrase should be more that 8 characters...
Click on Advanced Wireless Settings
Change the Beacon Interval to 75 >>Change the Fragmentation Threshold to 2304 Change the RTS Threshold to 2307 >>Click on "Save Settings"...
Now see if you can locate your Wireless Network and attempt to connect...

Linksys WRT600N vs CISCO PIX 506E.... Firewall / Routing Performance

Hi:
I am new to the forum and was hoping to tap into some of your expertise. I have a Linksys WRT600N version 1.1 and I recently acquired a CISCO PIX 506E firewall. My question is what should I use as a firewall? Both have SPI etc. Should I:
a) Use the 506E as a firewall and use the 600 as a wireless access point, or
b) Use the 600 as a firewall and wireless access point.
Do both routers have the same firewall routing performance? I want to use the storage feautre on the 600N, but if I do that and use it as a wireless access point the 600 can't get the proper time from the Internet, so my time for newly created folders and files shows they are 10 years old.
Anyway, just thought I would post and find out what some of the experts thought and maybe someone from Linksys or CISCO. I know the 506E is discontinued and was manufactured around 2001 and the 600N is a new model.
(Edited subject to keep threads from stretching. Thanks!)
Message Edited by JOHNDOE_06 on 05-06-2008 10:41 AM

The PIX is a real firewall. The WRT has a firewall which mostly protects the router itself. People prefer to buy a "SPI firewall router" instead of a simple "router" even though the router firewall does nothing or little to protect the LAN. The only firewall configurations on the WRTs you can usually do is on the Access Restrictions tab. But that's usually all. The LAN itself is not protected by the firewall. You would notice this if you had a public IP subnet and ran it through the WRT: the LAN would be fully exposed to the internet. Some routers have a few functions like protection against denial of service attacks or similar. But even then this often filters only the traffic targeted at the router and not the LAN.
The common protection of your LAN you have on the WRT is because you use private IP addresses inside your LAN and the router does NAT. However, NAT is not a security mechanism but a mechanism to solve the problem that you can only have a single public IP address but want to use multiple computers, which is why you have to use private IP addresses. Current NAT implementations usually drop unsolicited incoming traffic because they don't know to which IP address in the LAN to send it to. But the notion of NAT is to deliver and to allow connectivity. This has nothing to do with security or a firewall.
Thus, if you want to use a real firewall use the PIX. On the PIX you can configure the traffic which is allowed to enter the LAN and which not. It is far superior in this respect to the WRT. However, as it is a older model, I cannot tell how fast the PIX is. You should be able to find the old data sheets of the PIX somewhere on the cisco website. They should mention the possible throughput. I guess it won't be an issue.
To me another point for the PIX are the VPN capabilities which allow you to securely access your LAN while you are on the road.
Of course, you must know how to configure the PIX correctly. It is a complex device and can be configured pretty much for anything you like. This means of course if you do it wrong you may end up with little or no security.
BTW, there are no people from linksys in this forums except the moderators (which may be from lithium). To hear from Linksys you have to contact Linksys support.

WRT600N and WUSB600N Storage-Link breakthrough!

So I have been playing with this combo for 3 weeks now and have been unable to transfer large files over the network or from the storage-link.
However, today I have achieved a breakthrough. As usual I was going over my settings and realized that for the first time none of my other wireless adapters I use have WMM support, and they all work fine. The WUSB600n has WMM support. So I went into the router (I suppose I could have done it at the adapter as well), and disabled WMM (keep in mind it won't disable correctly with firmware prior to 36.)
Voila! All of a sudden I can transfer all of my files no problem. Also here is the real kicker, trasnfers to and from the storage-link drive got faster. I don't have hard numbers, but I can tell you the transfer times for large files seem to be down 30%.
Next up is to see if this somehow affected the PS3 and that DLNA protocol error.

UPDATE! This does indeed seem to have fixed the PS3 DLNA protocol error message. I'm not sure if WMM is broken in the WRT600N, but disabling it is making this thing work like a dream.
Keep in mind like I said you need the newest firmware to disable it, in prior firmware versions it wouldn't actually disable.
Another twist in my testing has shown that the WUSB600N does not like being plugged into a USB port that has 1.1 devices on the same root hub (may go for 2.0 devices as well).
Update 2: I give up, so apparently I can fix either of these problems, but not both at the same time. If I run the media server (with WMM disabled) I don't have the problem with the PS3, but the WUSB600N adapter craps out. Otherwise I can disable both the media server and WMM and the WUB600N works great, but I lose the media server.
This whole thing sounds like a memory issue to me (I'm an embedded software engineer, I have been there). They probably never tested everything running in parallel. Anyway I give up, I am going to go buy a Synology NAS and just use the WRT600N as a router. (Linksys definitely won't be getting anymore of my business).
Message Edited by vectorcatch on 06-08-2008 09:17 PM
Message Edited by vectorcatch on 06-08-2008 09:18 PM

Cascading a wireless WRT600N to a wired BEFSR81 to the Internet

Okay, here is an easy one.
I am trying to daisy chain a new WRT600N wireless router to an older BEFSR81 8-port router. Here is the setup up. Cable modem is wired to the WAN jack on the 8-port. 5 computers (Win98 or Win 2000) wired into the common ports on the 8-port. They all can communicate with the 8-port, with each other and to the Internet. I have now wired common port 1 of the WRT600N into the cross-over uplink port of the 8-port. The 8-port uses IP address 192.168.50.1 (submask 255.255.255.0, starting DHCP IP address 192.168.50.70, 20 user max). The WRT600N uses IP address 192.168.50.100 (submask 255.255.255.0) with DHCP disabled.
Okay,now here is the interesting part. I have a new Vista laptop that I want to go wireless through the new WRT600N. If I wire the laptop directly to a common port of the WRT600N, I can communicate with both routers, all the other compters and the Internet. However, if I remove the cable and go wireless, I can only communicate with the routers and the other computers. I can't connect with the Internet. I have set the wireless for WEP encryption. I have fiddled with the gateway settings, etc., but no wireless Internet.
I seems to me that if I can get there wired, I should be able to get there wireless if I simply disconnect the cable. The laptop connects with the WRT600N and with the other local computers, but NOT THE INTERNET. I am writing this message from the laptop in the wired configuration (port 2 on the WRT600N), so I know this much works. Any thoughts or help here on configuring the WRT600N or Vista would be appreciated. There is always the secret step!

I would suggest that you re-load the WRT600N firmware using the tftp.exe program.
The instructions for how to get this program, and how to use it are located at:
http://linksys.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/linksys.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=3703&p_created=11515...
The instructions are near the end of the post at the above URL. Look for a section labeled "Downloading tftp.exe" and another section labeled "Reloading the Firmware".
Before attempting to use the tftp.exe program, please do the following:
A) Power down your entire network.
B) Disconnect the WRT600N from all devices.
C) Wire one computer (the one with the firmware and tftp.exe program) to a LAN port on the WRT600N
D) Power up the WRT600N and your computer.
E) Use the tftp.exe program to load the latest firmware.
After the firmware upgrade using tftp.exe, exit the tftp.exe program, power down the router and computer, wait one minute, then proceed to the "reset to factory defaults" using the following procedure:
1) Power down all computers, the router, and the modem, and unplug them from the wall.
2) Disconnect all wires from the router, including the computer.
3) Power up the router and allow it to fully boot (1-2 minutes).
4) Press and hold the reset button for 30 seconds, then release it, then let the router reset and reboot (2-3 minutes).
5) Power down the router.
6) Connect one computer by wire to port 1 on the router (NOT to the internet port).
7) Power up the router and allow it to fully boot (1-2 minutes).
8) Power up the computer (if the computer has a wireless card, make sure it is off).
9) Try to ping the router. To do this, click the "Start" button > All Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt. A black DOS box will appear. Enter the following: "ping 192.168.1.1" (no quotes), and hit the Enter key. You will see 3 or 4 lines that start either with "Reply from ... " or "Request timed out." If you see "Reply from ...", your computer has found your router.
10) Open your browser and point it to 192.168.1.1. This will take you to your router's login page. Leave the user name blank, and in the password field, enter "admin" (with no quotes). This will take you to your router setup page. Note the version number of your firmware (usually listed near upper right corner of screen). Exit your browser.
If you get this far without problems, go ahead and setup the router manually.
If you cannot get "Reply from ..." in step 9 above, your router is dead.
If you get a reply in step 9, but cannot complete step 10, then either your router is dead or the firmware is corrupt. In this case, use the Linksys tftp.exe program to try to reload your router with the latest firmware. After reloading the firmware, repeat the above procedure starting with step 1.
If you need additional help, please state the results of steps 9 and 10. Also, if you get any error messages, copy them exactly and report back.
Please let me know how things turn out for you.
Message Edited by toomanydonuts on 03-14-2008 03:15 AM

I recently bought a wireless router the wrt600n. I pluged...

I recently bought a wireless router the wrt600n. I pluged the external HD ubs cable to the storage link on the router but it would not read the HD. I tried using the easylink advisor to add device but then when searching for the External HD its is not found. But when i go into the router setup manually under storage it detects the HD and i have it on share mode. The router is setup on my pc. When i got into my computer it does not detect the HD but on my macbook it detects the HD in share when i access the HD my connection cut right away. Why is that? Can someone help me. thanks

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WRT600N: Diagnosing Constant "Internet" Activity

I have a WRT600N connected to a Scientific Atlanta Model DPX110 cable modem and I'm seeing constant "internet" activity between my router and the cable modem. The intenet activity light is banging like crazy on the router and the "PC/LAN" light on the cable modem is also banging like mad. Have disabled all wrieless interfaces and disconnected every network connection from the router except that of the cable modem. Have also cycled power on both the cable modem and router a number of times just to make sure nothing is stuck in a wierd state. Basically, nothing I have done seems to get rid of this constant activity between the router and modem. I'm pretty sure the activity is not coming in from the WAN side of the modem as I'm not seeing any comparable activity on the modems "Cable/WAN" activity light. Not sure exactly when the behavior began, but I'm pretty sure this was not happening in the past. Also upgraded to the latest WRT600N firmware to see if that helps, but it did not. Any suggestions on how to diagnose what this traffic is between my cable modem and WRT600N short of a network sniffer? Is there some way to make the router log this activity for me to view? I initially assumed the activity was being caused by the router, but now am beginning to wonder if if might be the cable modem doing it... Anyway, any suggestions appreciated. Thanks!

Yeah, I had considered doing that and may still do so shortly. Was just a bit concerned with bypassing the hardware firewall in case the cable modem has somehow been compromised. Thought there might be a way to see what the "internet" traffic is before allowing the cable modem direct access to my PC. Paranoid, I know...
May try hooking directly to my PC shortly... but first I believe I'll need to locate and install the original network card to which the cable service is keyed. Haven't seen it in some time as I've long since had a Linksys cable router with MAC address spoofing in use. Will provide updates on what I find.
Thanks for the feedback!

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