Wireless router toasted??

pseudonympseudonym Michigan Icrontian
edited November 2003 in Science & Tech
Well, it looks like somehow my wireless router is toasted (Linksys WRT54G). Recently we haven't been able to send out any emails from our outlook account on my computer in the basement (Connected by RJ45) and my dads lappy on wireless. Outlook can actually access the account, and DL the mail, but it cannot send anything out, it'll just stall. Messing with firmware cures nothing, default settings cures nothing, none of my computers (3) can send out the emails at all, turning stuff on and off, etc etc. I think somehow the thing is toasted. Any ideas?

My only thought is that when I OCed it with Thraxes tutorial it got fried because my dad put it on the computer monitor upstairs like I told him not too, and the extra heat made it go boom in some way, but how would it only affect the outgoing stuff??

edit// forgot to add, if I hook the computer to the modem directly, no problems at all.

Comments

  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    Um, your router is firewall capable, AND the RFI\EMI from the monitor might have caused it to malf in its firewall settings. Get it away from monitor and reset it, PLEASE. THEN reprogram it as needed.

    Other possibility is that somehow the SMTP standard port got firewalled off.

    IF you can surf and get email the silly thing is not BUSTED, it simply decided to firewall the SMTP-- probably the firewall block rules got scrambled when it was exposed to the monitor's massive electromagnetic field. Typically, you want ports 110 (POP3), the SMTP port, and Ports 21 and 25 (FTP interaction) open. Other than that everything can be firewalled off except for special needs ports like gaming and P2P (which I am not going to talk about here except to say they EXIST) ports.

    John-- HTH and the thing is not fried worse, but you will know after you reset it.
  • pseudonympseudonym Michigan Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    Well, resetting the router didn't work. Redid the flash, same problem. Shut off the firewall and it still wasn't working right. Do you guys know what port the SMTP is so I can manually tell it to enable it?
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    SMTP is port 25 (same as FTP).

    NS
  • pseudonympseudonym Michigan Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    Gahhh, still nothing. On the plus side I figured out how to get my XBox working on it, too bad by the looks of things I'm gonna have to pick up a new one, and it WON'T be the same one, that thing hates me :)
  • pseudonympseudonym Michigan Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    Well, it is something in the router that I cannot fix that is causing this. Its goin back to Linksys for some lookin at. In the meantime, my impaitent dad went and bought another one (B this time). Def not as nice as the G, but seems to not hate me.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    I nearly killed my G router this summer by stacking it on top of my BEFSR41 stupidly while both were on. The WRT54G eventually shut off, and had to sit for 24 hours before it worked again...

    Stupid convection. :sad2:
  • JBJB Carlsbad, CA
    edited November 2003
    could your ISP's outgoing mail server have been down?
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    NightShade737 had this to say
    SMTP is port 25 (same as FTP).

    NS


    FTP is port 21
  • pseudonympseudonym Michigan Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    Radeon_Man had this to say
    could your ISP's outgoing mail server have been down?

    Naw, it was all in the router. I'm almost positive it was a combination of

    1) the overclock, which in itself isn't bad
    2) Sitting on top of the monitor like I specifically told the fam not to do (<--- thats what did it)

    From now on I have to keep these things where I can see them, and not let the fam mess with stuff.
  • FormFactorFormFactor At the core of forgotten
    edited November 2003
    Im sure its a dead router. I toasted 1 already by trying to flash it wirelessly :banghead: stupid move.

    Anyways the easiest fix is to do the following...


    go to best buy and buy a new one.

    stick the broken router in the box that the new router came in.

    keep the new router and return the broken one to best buy to get yo money back.

    Im sure if you do the above it will work good as new :thumbsup:
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