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Unable to enable wireless
This morning the wireless went out on my router and I'm unable to turn it back on. When i go to the basic page is shows wireless off and a yellow caution sign on the setting, see attached. I have rese...
- The second to right LED on the top is actually a button that disables wireless. If you hold it down for 5 seconds, it will disable wireless on the device, and will show it disabled in the GUI but there's no way to re-enable it. To re-enable it, hold down the button again for 5 seconds, the lights for wireless on the left will turn on when it is back on.
I was cleaning yesterday and moved the router behind my TV, and the TV was just resting on top of it. I was using it all day but at some point apparently the TV moved enough to push the button... Kind of weird there's no entry in the log of when this is pushed though, too.
greenmaze wrote: danekan,
Good information. I've had the same problem now several times. All of the sudden wireless stops working and there's no way to re-enable it through the web interface. The way I've been recovering is resetting to factory defaults and then reconfiguring. It never occurred to me that my 5 year old might be pressing the button.
If you're from Netgear and reading this, this is a terrible UI. I already sent one of these back because of this very issue. At the very least, give us the ability to disable these buttons.
Guess this is another reason for putting router up high as recommended on many posts/sites. :)