Before I bin it I wonder if anyone can tell me if they have seen this. Last night the router started dropping wireless connections and when it appeared to recover I could get to the internet, but not to the router admin page. I reset it and as my son had been complaining about apparent wireless issues for a few days I decided to apply the latest firmware. I could not get the utility to connect (timeouts), but did manage to apply the .rst version using the web interface. It said it had completed successfully and gave me a ok button to reset the router which it did. However now it seems to go through an apparent startup sequence and then I get 8 of the 9 LED's light up (shape of a square with the centre light being the only one not lit). These lights stay on for a few seconds and then it appears to go through the reboot sequence again. My laptop cannot connect either wirelessly or via a direct cable connection. The windows network status says that there is no cable attached for all but about 2 seconds during each cycle. It tried the TFTP utility, but got a timeout again. I've not tried it without my firewall running yet, but I'm not hopeful. I don't know if the wireless problems were the initial signs of a hardware failure, or if I've just made a bad situation worse by messing up the firmware ?
