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Last night while I was streaming a movie to my Chromecast the wireless signal stopped working. I power cycled down/up both the cable modem and the wireless router, but it didn't help. Tried again this morning and then finally got on the phone with Comcast support (both modem and router are my own, not Comcast's). Everything looks fine on the Comcast end which leads me to believe it's the router. Could it have just stopped working after almost 8 years or can I do something? The only lights that appear are the 2 green ones at the top. I'm now at work and trying to access it remotely using Genie but that's not working either. Suggestions? Thanks in advance.
Could it have just stopped working after almost 8 years or can I do something?
Who knows? But this is a basic and inexpensive bit of kit, with poor specifications. For example, the LAN and WAN ports are limited to 100BASE-Tx. This is slower than many modern internet services and certainly slower than a lot of the PCs and other hardware sold in the past decade or more. The wifi may well be equally slow. No support for 5 GHz devices.
Could it have just stopped working after almost 8 years or can I do something?
Who knows? But this is a basic and inexpensive bit of kit, with poor specifications. For example, the LAN and WAN ports are limited to 100BASE-Tx. This is slower than many modern internet services and certainly slower than a lot of the PCs and other hardware sold in the past decade or more. The wifi may well be equally slow. No support for 5 GHz devices.
Thanks for your suggestions! I actually got home last night and although I had already tried it 2-3 times previously, this time when I hit the reset button it worked! Strange. But things seem to be working for the time being and I'll look into a more robust router for the future. Thank you!
