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14-06-2004, 21:09
After numerous attempts and driving 100km everytime forth and back to the place where I put this thing I'm desperate, so I thought let's give it a try here.....Maybe anyone of you can be of any assistance.
A month ago I bought a WL500g for my uncle. I chose for asus because I'm familiar with their products and reputation and I really wanted something that works the first time and it should be of good quality. But even more it should be good because my uncle lives 100kms away from me. Every time it doesn't work I have to drive over there and see what's wrong.
They got connected to ADSL from Planet Internet. A light subscription of 25 euro per month. All worked excellent until I started with the WL500g. After having everything set up I'm trying to reboot the WL500, but even rebooting seems to much for the thing. After waiting several minutes I decided to unplug the powercord and put it back in. The settings were still there and the router booted again. All right then... no problem. Let's give it a go. Everything worked fine. Until I was gone 1 day! The WL500g crashes frequently and then you don't get an IP anymore and you can't connect to the internet anymore. This counts for the notebook as well as their regular pc, both new machines and connected wireless. The ADSLmodem is still working and after rebooting the WL500g is up and running again.
This has been happening for the past two weeks now: I'm fed up with it so I went over there yesterday to fix things. I downloaded the latest firmware and installed it. I turned all options like security etc off: Just plain factory settings. Still the damn thing is not able to reboot, even though, sometimes it can. Very strange. There's no logic in that. However, I've been on the internet all day so I packed my stuff and went home.
Today: "you have one new e-mail"... Oh no... don't tell me: Yup, it's not working again. So now I'm at this point where I've completely had it with this machine. What's wrong with it? I'm going to collect it over there and swap it for another brand. I'll take the Asus for my private collection so I can toy with it because it seems that is the only thing it was made for... or?? Maybe one of you people can shed some light on this situation?
So now I have these two problems:
1) What am I going to put there? Max 100 euros and no special options: Just sharing internet and a good wireless range (again a big drawback for the Asus, it doesn't seem to perform any better than any other cheap brand like Sweex, sitecom, Edimax << something I totally not expected!)
2) What am I supposed to do with this Asus to get it to work properly? My uncle can't wait any longer so this one is going to be mine but also here, it has to work.
Add info: The pc/laptop is not the problem: They both don't get an IP anymore and no connection. The both have clean WinXP pro+SP1 installs. It's not the modem either: After a router-restart everything is up and running again.
Please, any help?
A month ago I bought a WL500g for my uncle. I chose for asus because I'm familiar with their products and reputation and I really wanted something that works the first time and it should be of good quality. But even more it should be good because my uncle lives 100kms away from me. Every time it doesn't work I have to drive over there and see what's wrong.
They got connected to ADSL from Planet Internet. A light subscription of 25 euro per month. All worked excellent until I started with the WL500g. After having everything set up I'm trying to reboot the WL500, but even rebooting seems to much for the thing. After waiting several minutes I decided to unplug the powercord and put it back in. The settings were still there and the router booted again. All right then... no problem. Let's give it a go. Everything worked fine. Until I was gone 1 day! The WL500g crashes frequently and then you don't get an IP anymore and you can't connect to the internet anymore. This counts for the notebook as well as their regular pc, both new machines and connected wireless. The ADSLmodem is still working and after rebooting the WL500g is up and running again.
This has been happening for the past two weeks now: I'm fed up with it so I went over there yesterday to fix things. I downloaded the latest firmware and installed it. I turned all options like security etc off: Just plain factory settings. Still the damn thing is not able to reboot, even though, sometimes it can. Very strange. There's no logic in that. However, I've been on the internet all day so I packed my stuff and went home.
Today: "you have one new e-mail"... Oh no... don't tell me: Yup, it's not working again. So now I'm at this point where I've completely had it with this machine. What's wrong with it? I'm going to collect it over there and swap it for another brand. I'll take the Asus for my private collection so I can toy with it because it seems that is the only thing it was made for... or?? Maybe one of you people can shed some light on this situation?
So now I have these two problems:
1) What am I going to put there? Max 100 euros and no special options: Just sharing internet and a good wireless range (again a big drawback for the Asus, it doesn't seem to perform any better than any other cheap brand like Sweex, sitecom, Edimax << something I totally not expected!)
2) What am I supposed to do with this Asus to get it to work properly? My uncle can't wait any longer so this one is going to be mine but also here, it has to work.
Add info: The pc/laptop is not the problem: They both don't get an IP anymore and no connection. The both have clean WinXP pro+SP1 installs. It's not the modem either: After a router-restart everything is up and running again.
Please, any help?