Hi, Thanks everyone for your responses. Situation, flashed updated firmware on the router and after three days it's still working. It also seemed a little quicker. Also, just changed, under channel and SSID my transmission power from 20/40 mhz to just 20 mhz and wow the difference is noticeable. Thanks. Dave. On 1/11/13, Scott Granados <scott@granados-llc.net> wrote:
I don't think time was the issue here but rather losing the config on power down or randomly.
You're dead on correct though, NTP is your friend. It should set on the way up.
On Jan 10, 2013, at 5:19 PM, Kerry Hoath <kerry@ciscovision.org> wrote:
It is rare that routers have CMOS batteries, they usually store configuration in Flash memory and handle time of day functions by setting time via sntp when a network connection is available. They don't even have an RTC clock chip usually running the time of day clock off the main clock oscilator used for clocking the CPU.
If you bring up a router without internet access and check the time and it is either the time of shutdown or some default value then it is using sntp to set it. I've used pcs in the past as routers, and if they can autodetect the hard disk and won't halt on CMOS checksum missmatch you can simply set time after boot with ntpdate and they are fine. Come to think of it, many wireless routers don't even store time of day at all, TKIP only requires key changes after a certain time has elapsed and it doesn't care what the real time is.
Regards, Kerry.
On 9/01/2013 12:29 AM, Scott Granados wrote:
Sounds to me like your CMOS battery is going in the router itself. Your LAN settings are unimpacted because generic settings work. You lose your WiFi settings though and the radios won't sync. Might be time for a new router.
On Jan 7, 2013, at 6:45 PM, David Mehler<dave.mehler@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
What do you all use for wireless testing? I've got a home router, its's a belkin f5d7234 I believe it is, and it's starting to give me concern. It's an n router, but it can do g, which is good since the card in my laptop is g. I also have an n USB card.
Two days ago I got back after a weeks absence. I was told of an internet problem that required resetting the router, unplugging it for 30 seconds. I got back, couldn't get on the net, yesterday I got on to a box, wired in to the router and checked it out. It had reset itself to first day experience, default wpa security password wish I knew what that was, and no admin password. Well, not thinking of it I reset everything. Today, it did the same thing, I couldn't get on wirelessly. Instead of saying wireless which is my network's SSID it reverted once again to Belkin.a1c. So, I got back on that box and looked again and again it had gone back to day one settings. This time I just gave it a new wireless password so I could get on.
The router is maybe 1.5 to 2 years old but probably closer to 1.5 years. The distance between my laptop which is the only wireless device on, the others are wired and do not have the problem, is from back room of a one bedroom apartment to front room distance wise say 40 to 50 feet.
I'd like to know if this thing is going bad how to test and to know it's going bad before I get it replaced.
Thanks. Dave.
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