How ever strong the signal was with the new WHR-G125, being placed in the corner office, it still would not reach bedrooms at the other end of the house. So plan was to augment it with another router acting as a repeater.
As luck would have it, one fine day as I plugged in my router in the wall socket after an upgrade, it just died. No lights, no signs of life. If there are issues with firmware, atleast the power LED lights up. So I suspect the power adapter got fried. Luckily I was able to dig out a universal adapter, set it to the power requirements of the Buffalo (3v) and fired it up. This time around power LED and the lights for all the ports come and stay on. Not a good sign either :-(
I am wondering if the universal adapter does not have enough juice to bring the router fully to life. Supplied adapter supplied 3.3v at 1.2A, while the uiversal one is set to 3v and is only rated at 500mA.
So think it is time for another router, and it is urgent, since we are fully cut-off from the Interwebs. This time around I am specifically looking for routers that are supported by one of popular alternative firmwares, Tomato, DD-WRT, or OpenWRT, almost in that order :-)
As luck would have it, one fine day as I plugged in my router in the wall socket after an upgrade, it just died. No lights, no signs of life. If there are issues with firmware, atleast the power LED lights up. So I suspect the power adapter got fried. Luckily I was able to dig out a universal adapter, set it to the power requirements of the Buffalo (3v) and fired it up. This time around power LED and the lights for all the ports come and stay on. Not a good sign either :-(
I am wondering if the universal adapter does not have enough juice to bring the router fully to life. Supplied adapter supplied 3.3v at 1.2A, while the uiversal one is set to 3v and is only rated at 500mA.
So think it is time for another router, and it is urgent, since we are fully cut-off from the Interwebs. This time around I am specifically looking for routers that are supported by one of popular alternative firmwares, Tomato, DD-WRT, or OpenWRT, almost in that order :-)