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Comment on Charles Babbage and Howard Aiken. How the Analytical Engine influenced the IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator aka The Harvard Mk I by Week 3 | Technology 1 « INFLUENCES

Week 3 | Technology 1 « INFLUENCES — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 02:52:49 +0000

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Comment on The Evolutionary Origins of Ritual, Music, and Dance by Dr J

Dr J — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:05:00 +0000

Very interesting site, with plenty of information and interesting videos. Re Joseph Jordania, you are using materials from his 2006 book. In 2011 he published a new book “Who Do People Sing? Music in Human Evolution” where he addresses many topics discussed in this site (function of singing and drumming, origin of religion, culture, etc).

Comment on The Mobile Lounges at Dulles International Airport by Tratrl197412

Tratrl197412 — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:07:00 +0000

The main purpose of a plane-mate at one time was to facilitate the ground level terminals as you had to walk from the gate or terminal to the mobile stair. The plane-mate eliminated weather and handicap problems. So basically you entered the plane-mate at ground level and was driven to your plane and the plane-mate elevated to the aircraft door height.

Comment on The Mobile Lounges at Dulles International Airport by Tratrl197412

Tratrl197412 — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 23:56:00 +0000

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Comment on Google’s Ngram Viewer exposes Gartner’s Hype Cycles by Richard I. Garber

Richard I. Garber — Tue, 03 May 2011 16:23:00 +0000

John:

Interesting post. The hype cycle also doesn’t seem to describe other technologies in transportation. History is messy! See: http://joyfulpublicspeaking.blogspot.com/2011/05/do-hype-cycles-show-up-in-books.html

Comment on The Mobile Lounges at Dulles International Airport by Connecting through IAD w/ international arrival - FlyerTalk Forums

Connecting through IAD w/ international arrival - FlyerTalk Forums — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:09:18 +0000

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Comment on First Entry by John

John — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:43:08 +0000

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Comment on Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless-B Broadband Router Problems – Low Reliability and Poor Fault Tolerance by Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 06:20:40 +0000

I recently upgraded from DSL to cable high speed access, and have had all of the problems listed in the above posts. My cable modem also happens to be a Motorola surfboard. After trying everything here and several other sites, I consulted a good friend of mine who has done a lot more home networking than I have. He suggested that I disable UPnP on the router, because XP and 2000 (the 2 machines that I use) can confuse the router with requests. I was averaging 6-8 drops in a day, and since then I’ve not dropped for 48 hrs. Hopefully this is the ticket. It was a simple change, and immediately solved my problems… so far anyway.

Comment on Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless-B Broadband Router Problems – Low Reliability and Poor Fault Tolerance by Feng

Feng — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 06:20:10 +0000

I bought BEF211S4 and WUSB11. 2 PC and 1 laptop run on Win xp , SP 2. now, the 10/100M and wireless both work. disabled the windows firewall unchecked the uPn

Comment on Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless-B Broadband Router Problems – Low Reliability and Poor Fault Tolerance by Rob

Rob — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 05:18:58 +0000

After spending the last week and over 10 hours trying to figure out the problem with Windows Media crashing the connection both wireless and wired on my befw11s4 v4, I decided that the problem was the firmware upgrade to 1.52.02. I downloaded the old firmware, reinstalled it and everything is fine now. found old driver at this address. ftp://ftp.linksys.com/pub/network/befw11s4_v4_v1.50.14_code.bin

Comment on Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless-B Broadband Router Problems – Low Reliability and Poor Fault Tolerance by Tracey

Tracey — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 05:18:30 +0000

I just found this because comcasts website does not list Linksys BEFW11S4 as a compatible modem for their network. This was helpful to me, because it seems that it is, with some work. Thanks!!! Tracy

Comment on Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless-B Broadband Router Problems – Low Reliability and Poor Fault Tolerance by Chris

Chris — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 05:18:00 +0000

I own this model as well and let me post what worked for me. To carify; Model: BEFW11S4 V.4 Firmware: 1.52.02 Problem: Frequent router lockups. After locking up can not ping the linksys router from any computer, wired or wireless. Most common cause of lockup was when playing a video / media clip (i.e. news clip from cnn.com). Solution: Downloaded and installed Firmware version v1.50.14 from Linksys’s FTP site. Fixed all lockups. Running stable now for days. P.S. Don’t bother calling Linksys support. They are no help, tech support can barely speak english and even after being sent to a Tier II Tech was no help at all, just download the older more stable firmware and fix it yourself.. Or better yet, go buy a better product which is my plans then will have this router for a backup. Good luck

Comment on Vannevar Bush and The Limits of Prescience by Eduardo Ferreyra

Eduardo Ferreyra — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 06:06:33 +0000

While you say, “He is an almost unprecedented test case for the art of prediction. Unlike almost anyone else before or since Bush was actually in possession of ALL the facts” Although Bush was an outstanding scientific he was the victim of what Arthur Clarke called Failure of Imagination Bush once declared: “There have been a great deal said about a 3,000-mile rocket. In my opinion, such a thing is impossible… we can leave it out of our thinking.” Not very good at predicting something that Hermann Oberth and Goddard saw clearly back in 1927.

Comment on Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless-B Broadband Router Problems – Low Reliability and Poor Fault Tolerance by Pietro

Pietro — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 05:17:32 +0000

Hi people, i have a Linksys BEFSR41 router.I changed the password,but i can’t reset the password anymore.I forgot the password.Is there a way of changing the PW on the router?Any help would be very helpful.Thanks. Pietro

Comment on The Mobile Lounges at Dulles International Airport by Chris

Chris — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 03:29:45 +0000

Being as I am, a very frequent traveler into Dulles, I find that these mobile lounges are actually very interesting. In fact, recent studies conducted at Dulles, Reagan, And Baltimore Washington, have found that passengers actually prefer these mobile lounges as opposed to regular busses, and moving sidewalks. Contrary to popular belief, most people dont like moving sidewalks, as the loose there balance easy, and not to mention if one is shut down for maintenence, the walk is very exausting. High speed rail services between terminals is very modern and convenient……..but also very costly, and the wheels are replaced often, causing difficulties in scheduling maintenece, and moving passenegers. Ultimately, for an airport of Dulles/Washington’s size, I believe the mobile lounges are the best assets for Dulles right now. Not to mention all the other construction, and renovation there doing on Dulles at this Point. Thanks for reading my opinion.

Comment on Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless-B Broadband Router Problems – Low Reliability and Poor Fault Tolerance by Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 05:17:06 +0000

Yo, I also had those problems of yours with my sucking router! But, now I’m very content because the problem is solved after doing some internet-surfing. One said on this messege board that he downgraded his router to 1.45.3 firmware and everything worked fine. I couldn’t find that firmware because it’s quite old. But yesterday, I finally found it, used it, and rock-n-rolled! My router is better than ever, and no more stopping, kicking, disconnecting, or etc has happened. You guys will have really hard time to find this firmware. Don’t worry. Just send me a e-mail : bgfanauk@cox.net, and I will send you the one in zip file. Bye~

Comment on Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless-B Broadband Router Problems – Low Reliability and Poor Fault Tolerance by Hendry

Hendry — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 05:16:38 +0000

this sucks my router freezes and i have to disconnect power and connect it back in order to work again. I have that same linksys piece of shit router in my house, and its just a pain in the ass. Anyone has a solution?

Comment on Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless-B Broadband Router Problems – Low Reliability and Poor Fault Tolerance by FafaFofo

FafaFofo — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 05:16:09 +0000

I got a lot of good ideas from this thread. It seems that the problem is in the router itself, not the WAP. I resurrected an old Linksys single-port router and installed it in front of the BEFW11S4. I’m only using the BEFW11S4 as an access point (not using WAN port). The lockups stopped and the network is working fine. I recommend either replacing the Linksys unit with a D-Link unit or buy a hardwire router to take over the Linksys routing chores.

Comment on Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless-B Broadband Router Problems – Low Reliability and Poor Fault Tolerance by Lamour James

Lamour James — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 05:15:32 +0000

i have a Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless-B Broadband Router .i lose the cd for installing.i would like to know if i can connect the internet across a direcway of a friend who linving in front of me .how can i capture the signal. i hope to have a answer and think you!

Comment on Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless-B Broadband Router Problems – Low Reliability and Poor Fault Tolerance by FafaFofo

FafaFofo — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 05:14:21 +0000

The information in this thread is excellent! Thanks, all. I’ve just spent a week trying to get a BEFW11S4v4 to work for a friend. I’ve used Linksys hardwired routers for years but always used D-Link APs with them for the wireless connections. The D-Link stuff has been flawless. I decided to use the Linksys router so it would stack with another Linksys box. After reading this thread, I’m going back to D-Link.

Comment on Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless-B Broadband Router Problems – Low Reliability and Poor Fault Tolerance by m1903a3

m1903a3 — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 05:10:37 +0000

Wow – it’s interesting to see how many people are having the same problems I’m now having. But, I have a little more history that may provide some clues. I’ve had my BEFW11S4 for four years. Initially it had two hard wired systems, one Win98 and one Win98SE with a third Win2K system downstairs using a usb wireless connection, all using DHCP to get a connection. The Linksys provides a connection to the cable via a Toshiba cable modem. All was well in the Realm. Then, about a year ago my daughter upgraded her Win98SE system to XP. She immediately started having intermittant problems accessing the network, unable to even ping the router. Recently I upgraded my system to XP. Since then I too lose my connection to the router, and she loses hers more frequently than before. Whatever the exact problem, it certainly seems to be directly related to using XP since both systems worked perfectly for over three years, only the XP system had intermittant problems and now that both are XP we both lose the connection frequently. Now I’m going to go home and disble uPnP on both XP systems and the router and see what happens.

Comment on Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless-B Broadband Router Problems – Low Reliability and Poor Fault Tolerance by Sam Abel Smith

Sam Abel Smith — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 05:09:07 +0000

With the Linksys router you have to use the correect firmware for your region, ie you can not use the US firmware update on a europe router and vise vesa. The two have different channel frequencies which is why it seems to lose connectivity. The latest firmware fro the UK router is 1.50.13 and it does work.

Comment on Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless-B Broadband Router Problems – Low Reliability and Poor Fault Tolerance by PY

PY — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 05:08:35 +0000

I’m afraid I can just add more bad news to this already very long (but helpful) list of problems. I have BEFW11S4 with latest firmware (1.52.02), and not only it hangs for no apparent reasons 2 or 3 times a day, but I can also crash it just trying to access to online radios site ( need a full restart of both router and laptop!! Not even mentionning that I couldn’t have WinXP to talk WEP with it. No wonder why Linksys now makes big promotions to get rid of these buggy boxes. I suggest we all ask for refund!!

Comment on Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless-B Broadband Router Problems – Low Reliability and Poor Fault Tolerance by Ramin

Ramin — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 05:08:07 +0000

I’m having difficulty watching streaming video (Windows Media & Real) on my Linksys BEFW11S4 – Wireless-B Broadband Router (Firmware Release Version 1.52.02) – the router hangs every time I try to watch a stream. I upgraded to latest firmware version 1.52.02 from firmware version 1.50.14. When I switched back to the previous firmware version, there was no problem. There are others who are also encountering this problem on the net – please see http://forums.techguy.org/showthread.php?t=374158 and http://www.broadbandreports.com/forum/remark,13414989 Linksys suggests setting the MTU to 1472 and then “decrease the size by 10 until better performance is achieved, else if the performance gets worse, stop decreasing the size and set the size back where it works better.” Needless to say, this hasn’t worked for me…

Comment on Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless-B Broadband Router Problems – Low Reliability and Poor Fault Tolerance by Evan

Evan — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 05:07:35 +0000

And it still doesn’t work right. BEFW11S4 is a piece of junk. The end.

Comment on Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless-B Broadband Router Problems – Low Reliability and Poor Fault Tolerance by Morten Bache

Morten Bache — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 05:07:03 +0000

I had problems with our notebook (Intel Centrino processor running XP) crashing when connected wirelessly with Linksys BEFW11S4. It turned out to be caused by emule. Not running emule has created a completely faultless operation for many months. Anybody else tried this?

Comment on Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless-B Broadband Router Problems – Low Reliability and Poor Fault Tolerance by Evan

Evan — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 05:06:27 +0000

Hey Thought I would just add my testimonial to this page. I bought my BEFW11S4v4 about a year ago (to replace this seemingly malfunctional netgear MR814v2) but it seems to stop working about three times per day, more frequently in the middle of the night. You can’t see other computers on the LAN or even access the configuration page. My ISP said it isn’t their problem. I have the original firmware 1.50.10. I will upgrade to 1.52.02 presently and post back with the results later on.

Comment on Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless-B Broadband Router Problems – Low Reliability and Poor Fault Tolerance by Seether

Seether — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 05:06:02 +0000

Has anyone thought that instead of a problem with Motorola/ linksys its a problem with someone on your cable network doing this to your device? I notice no one is having this problem on DSL, only Cable subs. i had my router on DSL for years and no problems.. i switched to cable and i keep getting issues.. linksys-dhcp-exploit Remote proof of concept exploit for various Linksys routers that have flaws in the way they return BOOTP packets. In each legitimate response, BOOTP fields are filled in with portions of memory from the device, allowing a remote attacker to sniff traffic and crash the device. I think this should be something they fix right away due to the higher than normal support calls about this exact issue.. I’m going to switch to a logserv tonight so that hopefully some logs will be retained when the router goes south and loses its internal logs.. Lame lame.. i want to bitch to the cable co, but i also want to bitch to linksys about not identifying this problem sooner. I’m not using a wireless router i am using a wired one and i still get this issue

Comment on Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless-B Broadband Router Problems – Low Reliability and Poor Fault Tolerance by Nate

Nate — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 05:05:29 +0000

How do I setup a Linksys Wireless-B Broadband Router to work as a DHCP Server

Comment on Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless-B Broadband Router Problems – Low Reliability and Poor Fault Tolerance by Matt

Matt — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 05:05:00 +0000

Hey im about to buy this BEFW11S4. is this a good idea considering all these problems ppl are having? i will be using it for gaming as well as casuall surfing

Comment on Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless-B Broadband Router Problems – Low Reliability and Poor Fault Tolerance by Bradshaw

Bradshaw — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 05:04:28 +0000

my 11S4v4 is working well with the 4/7/2005 firmware. I work perfectly with win xp sp2 on two notebooks. But I can’t get it to connect when I set 6bit wep with a 5 letter passphrase. XP says I am connected, but I can’t internet on the wifi. When I disable the wep it works swell. Any ideas? Thanks, Bradshaw

Comment on Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless-B Broadband Router Problems – Low Reliability and Poor Fault Tolerance by Scott

Scott — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 05:03:42 +0000

Hello all

I recently got a linksys BEFW11S4 Ver 4 to “replace” an older Dlink that would vary in power. Had a great deal of trouble getting it to work. I could not get WEP to work on my laptop (XP Home SP1) It worked fine on the D-link. If I disable it it seems to work OK. Note I am just using the router as a wireless access point I have an old Linksys Wired router that is solid as a rock, that I use to connect to DSL.

Anybody had problems implementing WEP with their Linksys? I Should note I upgraded to firmware 1.52.02

Any tideas? I may go back to the DI-614 since WEP worked on it Thanks Scott

Comment on Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless-B Broadband Router Problems – Low Reliability and Poor Fault Tolerance by Lu

Lu — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 05:03:15 +0000

I would experience the lock up problem without wireless in place. Just with my wired computer the router would lock up. I have downgraded the firmare to 1.45.3, Jul 1 2003. The router has not locked up since the downgrade. I have also tested with my wireless MA111 have not been able to lock up the router since the downgrade. I notified Linksys support I got a reply that they would escalate the case. They have not contacted me since the last reply no big deal I just plan to use it as a back up unit.

Comment on Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless-B Broadband Router Problems – Low Reliability and Poor Fault Tolerance by steve

steve — Sat, 04 Jun 2005 05:02:33 +0000

I’ve had a befw11s4 for about 2 years now starting with v1.47 of the firmware. Network is simple- 1 wired win98se to router,2 wireless (1 laptop XPhome linksys B PCMCIA card,1 WinME desktop Belkin wireless B PCI card ). The whole system is hooked to Comcast cable through a Motorola Surfboard 5100. I experienced many of the same things that previous users had…having to reset the router, having to pull the pcmcia card out of the laptop or reboot the laptop etc. Now, the Belkin card did not have any of these problems, just the Linksys pcmcia card. I had tried the firmware upgrades to no avail. UNTIL… I found a post that said to make sure that in the XP wireless network settings that the XP 802.11 security setting box was unchecked. It was checked so I unchecked it. WOW!!!!! Instant gratification! No more resets (unless I did something stupid), or anything else. Turn on the laptop, let it boot and use the net, print, share the win98 or the ME harddrive etc., no problems! Apparently, the router wireless security and XP security setting were conflicting. It’s now been working fine since then but it took me about 2 months after I bought it to figure that out. SO…IMHO, It was XP that caused the problem…and ignorance on Linksys’s side for not informing the customer of a fix. Also IMHO v1.50.14 was the most stable firmware. Latest, v1.52.02 has given me a few headaches so I’m going back. There aren’t any new features that I need. Now, that’s only my situation, yours may be different…

Comment on Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless-B Broadband Router Problems – Low Reliability and Poor Fault Tolerance by Lu

Lu — Sat, 04 Jun 2005 05:02:00 +0000

I experience the lock up issue with both firmware 1.50.14 & 1.52.02. The router needs to be power-cycled in order to bring it back. I tried re-flashing the firmware reset no luck. I have tested with Netgear MR814v2 & MR814v3 worked just fine no lock up, my older linksys unit solid. Even the notorious WGT634U staid up with updated firmware. I e-mailed linksys support they were no help, did not even acknowledge my troubleshooting steps or the fact that I tested with 3 other routers and was not able to duplicate the problem. Based on my testing I believe that the problem does not lie with Win XP pro but with bad firmware.

Comment on Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless-B Broadband Router Problems – Low Reliability and Poor Fault Tolerance by JustinT

JustinT — Fri, 27 May 2005 05:01:25 +0000

Hello all, very informative site… Earthlink dsl, Netopia dsl modem, wired main desktop, wired xbox, wireless laptop, router BEFW11S4 V.4 Worked fine for a few days then just hung and very slow. Tried reintsalling and reseting it now I cant even access router settings via http or with routher setup cd. Tried disabling my lan card and re-enabling but no luck. CD instal says “error cannot connect to router”–I’ll try disabling the unpnp tonight but if that doesnt work im taking it back for something better–this is my second one, first was defective out of the box. Any advice? thanks- jt

Comment on Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless-B Broadband Router Problems – Low Reliability and Poor Fault Tolerance by Red

Red — Fri, 27 May 2005 05:00:56 +0000

Recyling the power every day. None of the solutions offered here have worked. Steaming pile of shit that doesn’t even have an SPI Firewall. Lousy tech support. Told me to take it back to the store and exchange for another. Outsourcing SUCKS!

Comment on Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless-B Broadband Router Problems – Low Reliability and Poor Fault Tolerance by Brad

Brad — Tue, 24 May 2005 05:00:32 +0000

I also just started having lockup issues with a BEFW11S4 v. 4 router. It was working fine for 6 months with three WUSB11 clients on XP computers. I added a WUSB56G adapter to another computer and upgraded the firmware on the AP to 1.52.02. The AP immediately began locking up every 15 minutes. The wireless signal would continue to broadcast but the unit would not even respond to a ping. I back-revved the firmware to 1.50.14 (supplied by Linksys Tech Support). That only caused the unit to freeze but the wireless signal would continue to broadcast. Linksys could only tell me to try all 11 channels and then contact them again. I have not tried the Upnp and SSPD option yet but will do so tomorrow

Comment on Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless-B Broadband Router Problems – Low Reliability and Poor Fault Tolerance by RickW

RickW — Tue, 24 May 2005 05:00:02 +0000

I have read the posts above and have encountered many, if not most, of these problems. I tend to agree with the XP Service Pak theory. As a techical novice, I don’t have the time nor inclination to debug endlessly. Is there a better wireless router that is less trouble prone? Cost is important, but these frequent freeze ups are costly anyway.

Comment on Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless-B Broadband Router Problems – Low Reliability and Poor Fault Tolerance by Me

Me — Sat, 21 May 2005 04:59:25 +0000

I have recently upgraded from 1.50.14 to 1.52.02 firmware on my BEFW11S4v4 … whenever i launch Windows Media Player 10 to stream content off the internet the router would hang hard and only a power re-set would bring it out of this state … this happened *every* time i used media player … my set-up is WinXP SP2 hard wired to the router … no wi-fi connections or anything else … i regressed back to 1.50.14 and everything is working just fine!

Comment on Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless-B Broadband Router Problems – Low Reliability and Poor Fault Tolerance by Heather

Heather — Thu, 12 May 2005 04:59:02 +0000

Hi folks. I also have one of these routers.
We’ve got one desktop PC hooked up to the router via the ethernet cable and a laptop and desktop on wireless using Linksys USB wireless adapters. We’ve had it going for a couple of years now and have always had a little bit of trouble. First of all the signal strength would go from very good to poor for no apparent reason. Resetting the USB adapter at first seemed to work but then I progressed to wandering downstairs to reset the router and eveything would be good for a week or so before it lost strength again and needed another reset.
In the last week we have a new, much bigger problem across all the computers (wired or not). Signal strength is still on very good, internet speed is terrible. We contacted the ISP who said that all is good from their end and plugging the cabled PC directly into the modem proves they’re right- it’s speedy as usual.
I had an error come up once to say that the wirelss was ok but it couldn’t find a server, haven’t seen it since.
Resetting the modem and router seems to fix the problem straight away but it the deteriorates and is almost unusable about 10 minutes later.
uPnP is disabled.
Firmware 1.52.02 (just updated to try and fix this)
All PC’s are running XP (2 are SP2, not sure about the other).
DHCP connection, have not tried static IP’s yet.
Any ideas anyone?
Deej- how did you go with disabling uPnP and SSPD services from the computers? Any luck yet?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Comment on Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless-B Broadband Router Problems – Low Reliability and Poor Fault Tolerance by Kevin Tang

Kevin Tang — Wed, 11 May 2005 04:58:19 +0000

Dear all

I was use this Junk BEFW11S4 router for a year. And my problem same as all user here, hang and keep hang. But after off the upnp, it was run quite well.

But, recently my msn messenger connection got problem. It keep disconnect and reconnect. My friend house also use same router and their problem also same.

I had upgrade the latest firmware which is 1.52.02 version. but problem remain same.

Any suggestion for fix this problem??

Thank you

Comment on Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless-B Broadband Router Problems – Low Reliability and Poor Fault Tolerance by Ron

Ron — Sun, 08 May 2005 04:56:56 +0000

Hey, all. Just thought I’d add my experience to the page, to help make the statement that this router is utter garbage:

I bought my my BEFW11S4v4 this October. It worked fine until last weekend. Occasional power cycles were necessary but, on the whole, it did its job well. Now I can’t connect to it for more than twenty seconds via Windows (which was just enough time to update the firmware–useless), and it’s become a brick that prevents my access to the internet.

I’m going to be writing Linksys soon, and when I do, I’m going to link this thread in my email. I suggest other people who write to them do so, too.

I’m sure I’m never going to buy another Linksys product because of this piece of crap, and the clueless (or uncaring) tech support who seem unable to help me fix it.

Comment on The Mobile Lounges at Dulles International Airport by David

David — Sun, 08 May 2005 03:29:11 +0000

Does anyone know of any other North American airports that still operate these vehicles? MEX, or Mexico City, still uses these.

Comment on Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless-B Broadband Router Problems – Low Reliability and Poor Fault Tolerance by Deej

Deej — Wed, 04 May 2005 04:35:44 +0000

Okay, sorry for yet another concurrent post… Was talking about the issue with a co-worker who brought up a few key points that people might want to try… uPnP _AND_ SSPD are both network polling services that look for available services. Disabling them on the router alone does not stop the traffic. WinXP machines, if the service is enabled on them, will still poll for services, and the router will still recieve those polls (whether it is enabled or disabled on the router, it still receives the traffic – question is does it do anything with the traffic even if disabled or does it dump the traffic to NULL – does it log the traffic?). His thoughts are that maybe, just maybe, having more than one XP machine on the network will cause a flood of this polling traffic that the router will overflow on. Having that to think about, I realized that when I upgraded the gateway machine to XP Pro, was also the time I actually started using it as the gateway, and thus it was always on from that point. Previously, that machine and my laptop were not on 24×7, only when someone in the family used them. I also added another PC with XP (previously Win98) for my daughter about the same timeframe. So, from the point where I started having lockups, I now used 2 XP machines always-on, and my laptop was also used more. It didn’t occur to me before that it may be a number of computers on the network causing the issue, as I also have had 2-3 other machines running 24×7 (but not XP machines) on the network for years. This extra amount of polling may have started the overflow lockups. This may also be why some people have lockups more often than others (me, was about once a day – when I was on at home using the internet, I’d have to almost always reset the router). I will be trying to disable uPnP and SSPD services on all XP machines as soon as I’m set up in my new home (likely this weekend). I’ll report back on anything interesting still, but thought I’d report this finding first, in case others would like to try it prior to that. Good luck. Deej

Comment on Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless-B Broadband Router Problems – Low Reliability and Poor Fault Tolerance by Deej

Deej — Wed, 04 May 2005 04:35:15 +0000

Sorry for the second post – No modify options, and comment approval processes. As an added point, I have never upgraded the firmware since purchasing, so it doesn’t seem to have anything to do with the failures… the current (old) firmware was working for almost 2 years without an issue. But I will also upgrade to the newest, just to be sure. Might be old/buggy firmware that didn’t show up until an XP update that now kills it. Deej

Comment on Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless-B Broadband Router Problems – Low Reliability and Poor Fault Tolerance by Deej

Deej — Wed, 04 May 2005 04:34:53 +0000

I must thank everyone for their input here… it is helpful. I’ve been using the BEFW11S4 for about 2 years, and only recently have I been getting the hang problem. Couple of interesting notes that will debunk some ideas and enforce other ideas that have been posted here… 1) I started having the problem recently. I’ve used WinXP Home with the router without a problem for nearly a year. So the XP itself causing the problem is out (but more thoughts on this in a minute). 2) My setup is through a dialup modem (Ricochet high speed wireless modem). Not through a traditional broadband router. What this means is that I do internet connection sharing through an XP computer. The connection is not always on, and I get the lockups when it is not on. I do not use the “uplink” port, and use the router more in a traditional hub sense, with my gateway being the XP machine. And I have a software firewall between the modem and the access point. It can’t be traffic floods or DOS attacks from the internet causing it. 3) I don’t use DHCP – everything is static. The client lease time has nothing to do with the lockups. I also have NAT and pretty much all other services in the router turned off. As I said, it’s now used as an access point and hub than a router (wasn’t always the case when I was on DSL, but I didn’t have trouble then). A couple of points here that changed about the same time as the problems starting – I upgraded the connection sharing machine from XP Home to XP Pro (with SP2 already in it). I also did security updates on my laptop XP Home machine. And, wireless G routers started popping up around the neighborhood, with more signal strength – XP seems to like to drop the connection with mine to try to connect to those (which I have “connect to any” for other reasons). Reading the above posts, I’d tend to believe that a service pack or other update in XP is causing the overflow error, and not a stock XP without service packs/updates. It could also have to do with Wireless G APs and the communication between the two wireless points. I’m going to give the uPnP idea a try, and if I still get all these lockups, I will then break my network down and rebuild each PC until I find what is the culprit in XP causing it, if any. I’m pretty sure that either it’s the linksys hardware failing or something recently added into XP. I’m hoping the latter. I will report back here if I find anything interesting. Anyways, thanks for reading – and thanks for posting – it helped sort my thoughts and narrow the culprit down. Deej

Comment on Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless-B Broadband Router Problems – Low Reliability and Poor Fault Tolerance by Chris

Chris — Mon, 02 May 2005 04:34:17 +0000

I also had a very interesting problem with my linksys router and the linksys wireless-B adapter. I have one wired PC and 2 wireless notebook/desktop connected to the Internet using the linksys BEFW11S4 router. everything working fine buy every 2-3 days, my desktop using the Linksys USB wireless-B adapter can no longer conencted to the Internet, but my wireless notebook and wired PC are working fine without any problem at the same time! Both my PC and notebook are running Windows XP and my wired desktop are also Windows XP.

Comment on Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless-B Broadband Router Problems – Low Reliability and Poor Fault Tolerance by Brainf

Brainf — Mon, 02 May 2005 04:33:42 +0000

I had a serious lockup issue with my BEFW11S4 Ver. 4, dropping an excellent connection almost every hour, but it was corrected when I downloaded the new firmware from linksys that they posted earlier this month, on 4/7/05, Ver. 1.52.02. It will not erase your settings on upload (I would backup anyway before trying it). Good Luck.

Comment on Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless-B Broadband Router Problems – Low Reliability and Poor Fault Tolerance by Jade

Jade — Fri, 15 Apr 2005 04:32:38 +0000

To Hula:

BEFW11S4 works as an access point (AP) however, it is not capable of communicating “wirelessly” with another wireless router because it does not have any bridging capability.