From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.200.15]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPSA id 2335911 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:48:46 -0500 Message-ID: <49A7000C.8080607@2rosenthals.com> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:48:12 -0500 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081212 MultiZilla/1.8.3.5g SeaMonkey/1.1.14 (PmW) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] Linksys Wireless Router Firmware Replacement References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 02/26/09 02:47 pm, Will Honea thus wrote : > ** Reply to message from "Lewis G Rosenthal" > on Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:21:45 -0500 > > > >> First, it is entirely possible that your BEFW11S4 is actually suffering >> a hardware failure, and it will likely stop handling wireless traffic >> entirely in the near future. This has been my experience with these >> (they don't brick entirely; typically, the wireless goes first). None of >> the available open (or closed) source third party firmware works with >> this model, so a new router is your best bet. >> > > Pardon the intrusion but this caught my eye. I've got one of these beasts that > my son fried trying to hook up his dish ISP. The only part that isn't working > is the single port that connects to the internet - all the other ports and the > wireless works as advertised. Do you know if dd-wrt will allow me to re-route > that bum port to one of the other ports? > > Sorry to hear that, Will. Bonding is available, but I haven't tried it thusfar (correction: I have, but not in the manner you suggest). Have a look at http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Bonding . > It's a plaything just gathering dust right now but I have a couple of uses for > it if I can get it working. Of course, buying a cheap Linksys or Netgear > router/AP would probably be more cost effective (last one I bought was $21 at > Fry's) but it is something to keep idle fingers out of trouble... > > :-) If you've got the time and the inclination to play, *I'm* interested to hear how you make out! -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------- Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC www.2rosenthals.com Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com Treasurer, Warpstock Corporation www.warpstock.org -------------------------------------------------------------