"SysAdmin Survival Guide: When Your Home Router Turns against You"

[fruttochini]

Title: SysAdmin Survival Guide: When Your Home Router Turns against You

Hey guys, I've had my fair share of frustrating moments with home routers, but recently I encountered a situation that made me realize the importance of knowing how to troubleshoot and rescue your router when it decides to behave erratically. My router just decided to go haywire and was causing my whole LAN to go down. Anyone else have a similar experience?

 

[advansed]

"just had that nightmare a few months ago, dude. ended up flashing the router's firmware and installing OpenWRT to gain more control over it. never had any issues since then, but it was a wild ride to get there"

 

[PALMiK]

"Dude, this reminds me of that time my router's firmware went rouge and started blocking my own devices Anyone else experience this? Had to flash the firmware manually to get back up."

 

[Maximuus]

"lol, yea this is a classic horror story. I've had my fair share of rogue routers, but I always manage to recover by just hard resetting it . Anyone else have a favorite trick for salvaging a possessed router?"

 

[cjamirf]

Lol that's a real life nightmare! I've been there too, had to factory reset my router like 3 times in a row when it just started dropping my Wi-Fi connection. Anyone recommend a good router that's not too pricey?

 

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