i fixed it back to the way i like it... does this indicate the router might be on it's last leg? it's a WRT54G i think.

4/14/2011 5:58:23 PM

Once I had a router do that after not being used for about a month, and I had put DD-WRT on it.

4/14/2011 9:07:32 PM

If you've got a wrt54g and you have any inkling of tech skill you need to be throwing dd-wrt up on there.

Otherwise you should find someone local and get them to install it.

4/14/2011 9:48:27 PM

^^^ Funny thing - I was at my in-laws house tonight because they said their wireless internet wasn't working. I logged into the router (WRT54G) and sure enough the same thing you described happened. All of the settings were back to default.

Weird!

4/14/2011 9:52:10 PM

yeah i've put that on a previous router I had... what's the advantage?

4/14/2011 10:27:47 PM

Well there is a neat way to set up an ad-blocking system at the router level if you have DD-WRT on it, but my point was that it's not a problem with the stock firmware; maybe it really is about to go baibai

4/14/2011 10:39:24 PM

^^dd-wrt is darn near the king of reliability. I think I have 4 of them running right now and they have never gone down sans extended power outage. I have even intentionally tried to crash it by marrying a 20Mbit and a 10Mbit feed using a load balancer and running bittorrent across it. Things are near bulletproof.

Which makes me wonder - did you run a recent virus/malware scan? If they have something that's opening a ton of ports it might cause the router to spontaneously reboot - but losing it's settings it still awkward.

4/15/2011 11:46:28 AM

yeah i used microsoft security essentials scanner. i've been downloading a huge torrent lately (perfectly legal... just huge file size)

4/15/2011 12:23:01 PM