Hope for this router?

[powersmo]

Hey folks. First time posting in the networking section. This past week my Netgear N600 gigabit router stopped passing the signal from the surfboard modem to the desktop. I was able to connect fine from the modem straight however. Picked up a new router and it works fine. But I was wondering if it might be possible to revive it to working status by loading or attempting to load dd-wrt or some program like it? Thanks.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Did you have an AC power incident? Storm pass by recently?

I had a switch fry after a power glitch once. It had run 24/7 without issue for years before that. It wasn't on a UPS.

Anyways, try replacing the power brick first, then try re-flashing the firmware, reset settings to defaults, re-set it up again, and try it.

Also, consider changing out the ethernet cable, perhaps something happened to it.

 

[powersmo]

Thanks Larry. I did the usual trouble shooting with regards to the cables and reset the router to factory settings. I wonder if it just died from old age like a human. Been used but not abused for going on 3 years. I will try the do loop again though and see if this time it makes a difference. Thanks for the reply.

 

[MerlinRML]

Sounds like you could have been affected by the DNS problems that a number of others are complaining about with netgear routers. It would help to know if you're not actually able to send packets from the LAN to the WAN or if it's some other service failing like DNS.

You can check here for a couple threads about DNS failing, which a lot of people interpret as Internet Connection problems:
http://forum1.netgear.com/showthread.php?t=94089

 

[JackMDS]

The truth is that from the OP description there is No way to Really know what is going On.

The only thing that we know for sure is that the Internet connection work with a New Router.

I can write about 100 posts that would speculate about the Router and still Not guess the correct one.

Arbitrary Guessing is Not Technology.