What could be causing this?
By speakeasy
@speakeasy (4171)
United States
September 28, 2011 12:07pm CST
All of a sudden a lot of my friends and neighbors are all having similar problems with their routers.
The routers are different makes and models and they have different ISPs. They have 2 - 4 devices on the router and every device will have the same problem - only able to access some sites and all the others are timing out. One person could only download updates and email - another was restricted their home page and any links from that page - another could access everything but ebay, they could get to the ebay home page but could do anything else in ebay.
They reset the modem, router, and devices - no change; but, if they bypass the router and connect directly to the modem they can surf anywhere.
None of us had heard of problems like this before the last few days. Is there a virus or something that can affect routers?
Any ideas?
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2 responses
@mi6jamesbond007 (195)
• India
28 Sep 11
Wow weird problem really, i have never experienced or heard such an issue happening with different routers.
As i can see , You have done the basic troubleshooting. What can i suggest. Its too difficult.
Can you take one of the routers and try it out in a friend's home where he is not having such problems?
If that fails, probably virus. If its a virus then u will have to flash the firmware to set it right
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@speakeasy (4171)
• United States
29 Sep 11
I agree - weird. And, it all happened within just a couple of days - very sudden which is why I thought "maybe a virus" even though I never heard of a virus that affects routers; viruses normally target the computers.
I do know more about computers than most of my friends; but, I am hardly and expert and I do not understand the term you used "flash the firmware". How does one do this and what does it do?
@GardenGerty (169474)
• United States
29 Sep 11
I do not know about that, but I have the same problem only occasionally. I started putting a fan blowing on my router and modem and it has only happened once since then. Are you having excessive heat? Is there some kind of a magnetic disturbance going on or something electrical?
@speakeasy (4171)
• United States
29 Sep 11
Not that we know of. The heat is actually cooling down in our area now and no one said their router was running hot. No recent power outages or storms.
There are several towns here and this is only happening to people that I know in ONE town. People we know in other nearby towns aren't reporting this is happening.
Really strange!
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