I'm hoping you guys can help me out with a frustrating problem I've been having for the past day or so.
About 6 pm yesterday evening, I was watching Netflix on my Wii when it suddenly experienced connection problems. "No surprise," I thought, since it had been raining/storming lightly that day and it could have been a temporary problem. I checked with my laptop and iPhone and, while both of them were connected to the router, neither of them had internet access. Whenever I used Chrome on my Macbook, I would get a "DNS lookup failure" error page. I connected my laptop directly to the ethernet cable and to my surprise, I received a perfect internet connection.
I have been using this router (Linksys E1200) for the past six months without a single problem, so for the first time since I set it up and after unplugging it numerous times, I typed in the router's IP. Strangely, since I'm the only one with access to the router and didn't change it, the default "admin" for username and password did not work. I reset the router back to the factory settings, setting the router name and WEP passcode back to what it was previously. Still, no dice.
I think it should be of note that when I accessed Network Utility, I was still receiving and sending packets, but at an extremely slow rate (sent and received 2 about every second). However, when I pinged "www.ebay.com", all of the packets were lost.
Can anyone figure out why my wireless router suddenly decided not to function?
About 6 pm yesterday evening, I was watching Netflix on my Wii when it suddenly experienced connection problems. "No surprise," I thought, since it had been raining/storming lightly that day and it could have been a temporary problem. I checked with my laptop and iPhone and, while both of them were connected to the router, neither of them had internet access. Whenever I used Chrome on my Macbook, I would get a "DNS lookup failure" error page. I connected my laptop directly to the ethernet cable and to my surprise, I received a perfect internet connection.
I have been using this router (Linksys E1200) for the past six months without a single problem, so for the first time since I set it up and after unplugging it numerous times, I typed in the router's IP. Strangely, since I'm the only one with access to the router and didn't change it, the default "admin" for username and password did not work. I reset the router back to the factory settings, setting the router name and WEP passcode back to what it was previously. Still, no dice.
I think it should be of note that when I accessed Network Utility, I was still receiving and sending packets, but at an extremely slow rate (sent and received 2 about every second). However, when I pinged "www.ebay.com", all of the packets were lost.
Can anyone figure out why my wireless router suddenly decided not to function?