I think my buffalo w/ DD-WRT has died

[aphex]

Been having some wireless troubles over the past few days, so I updated to the most recent dd-wrt on my Buffalo WHR-HP-G54 that has served me well for the past 2 or so years.

Well the wireless seems to be dead as nothing can connect to it via wireless anymore. Tried resetting, going back to stock settings , etc, nada.

Any draft n routers I should look at?

 

[aphex]

Well maybe not... So it was down for the last hour, even did a scan and no other routers nearby were using channel 4 to make sure that wasn't the problem.

Then all of a sudden, about 2 minutes ago, everything just reconnects back up as if there was no problem.

So its working again, but it seems like this sucker may be on its way out?

 

[JackMDS]

LOL it is a Miracle.

May be you should put it on display and people can come by and make Wishes. 😉j/k

In any case if it keep acting out do not get rid of it it impossible to find WHR-HP-G54 these days.

 

[kevnich2]

If it does go "bad", pick up a WRT54GL and flash it with DDWRT but as jack said, do NOT get rid of that router, it's almost worth it's weight in gold right now.

 

[xSauronx]

i had the same thing happen with mine a couple of times: the wireless completely failed.

i flashed it to the stock firmware, then back to dd-wrt and it worked again. both times. go figure. ive had the thing for a year now and, for the moment at least, its running perfectly 🙂

 

[JackMDS]

Router's firmware is actually a form of computer OS, and at times it can get Trashed like nay active OS.

Reflashing sometimes solve the problem.

If you just reflash with the same firmware the problem might stay but reflashing to another firmware clean every thing out.

P.S. Buffalo's stock firmware is encrypted make sure that you have a version that can be securely used before making any change.

 

[aphex]

Would a flash to tomato then back to dd-wrt work to clean it out?

 

[JackMDS]

In theory it Should.

Read the instructions of both firmware very arefully there are some stipulation for such process.

In case of Bricked device, here is a link to a possible way to revive a Bricked Buffalo.

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/ind...and_Buffalo_WHR-HP-G54

P.S. I personally did not perform such "Surgery" this is only a courtesy link.

 

[radioouman]

FYI: I bricked one of these trying to go back to the original firmware. I had to use the process that Jack linked to. It wasn't terribly hard, just time consuming, but in the end I was able to recover my router and it is working fine now.