linksys srw248g4 poly mod.

[kc8adu]

a friend intercepted this from going to the dumpster.
full of stone and hm/hn.
no more!

[zandrax]

Re: linksys srw248g4 poly mod.

Better than new
Good work KC8

Zandrax

[pfrcom]

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kc8adu,

Are the heatsinks standard, or something you've added ?

[kc8adu]

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they are standard.

[blacklotus]

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a friend intercepted this from going to the dumpster.
full of stone and hm/hn.
no more!

I'm having big problems with an SRW2048 with bad caps, what kind of poly's did you use for that repair & where did you get them?

[Krankshaft]

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Polys are overkill IMO Panasonic FCs or any other low ESR cap would be fine.

[kc8adu]

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blue/silver=ncc ps 330@16
yellow=fujitsu re 820@2.5
silver/purple=sanyo sepc 560@4
i did 8 more of these recently.was told one was nfg out of the box.had to be reset 2-3 times a week.
none of the ones i poly modded have had to be reset in 6 months.

[kc8adu]

Re: linksys srw248g4 poly mod.

Polys are overkill IMO Panasonic FCs or any other low ESR cap would be fine.

not in this unit.those vrm's are closer to a cpu vrm on a mobo.

[Krankshaft]

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I guess having those fets so close to the caps isn't a good idea either.

Well I'm glad Cisco still uses the same crap caps in their professional lines as they do in their home use Linksys lines .

Back in the day their name stood for something.

[ratdude747]

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conclusion: cisco sucks!

[Newbie2]

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For home routers, D-Link isn't any better, I saw a pretty recent WBR-2310 wireless router have Lelon capacitors.

[weirdlookinguy]

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I had that router Newbie2. WBR-2310, with the 108mbps Atheros chipset. Mine had all Lelons too. It crapped out after a year. Wired worked fine, but over the course of six months or so, DHCP stopped working over wireless, connection would randomly drop, and worst of all, the signal strength kept getting lower and lower as the months passed by. It got to the point where I had to move my laptop around the room until it got a signal.

Ditched that shit, got a WRT54GL and flashed it with DD-WRT, haven't had any problems since. Course, I should probably recap it sometime soon (I think Cisco likes to put G-Luxon in these). But it's been a few months and it's been nothing short of spectacular so far.

[ratdude747]

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i have 2wire router-dsl modem combo which despite the exceptional venting on the case would always overheat. due to the mesh top, i could see that there were no bulging caps. anybody know what brand 2wire uses? that way i know if trying to open it od worth the effort...

[Wizard]

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DIR-655 is full of UCC caps. Good stuff. I DID have WBR-2310. :p

Cheers, Wizard

[Junk Parts]

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I just fixed a card just like Kc's. Mine didn't have cap issues. The problem with mine was broken cold joints on the socket. It would only work if you plugged it in just right. A hot iron fixed it right up.
My wireless router DSL modem is a POS too. Its a Westel something from Verizon. It does what ever it wants to do. Have not opened it yet but I bet that there will be some cap crap in it when I do. May just get a better one and put this one in the bin. You get what you pay for and I think that I got this thing for $19.99 on special when I signed up with verizon.

[Newbie2]

Re: linksys srw248g4 poly mod.

I had that router Newbie2. WBR-2310, with the 108mbps Atheros chipset. Mine had all Lelons too. It crapped out after a year. Wired worked fine, but over the course of six months or so, DHCP stopped working over wireless, connection would randomly drop, and worst of all, the signal strength kept getting lower and lower as the months passed by. It got to the point where I had to move my laptop around the room until it got a signal.

Ditched that shit, got a WRT54GL and flashed it with DD-WRT, haven't had any problems since. Course, I should probably recap it sometime soon (I think Cisco likes to put G-Luxon in these). But it's been a few months and it's been nothing short of spectacular so far.

I recently recapped my WBR-2310 router with Panasonic FC series 220uf 25V capacitors, and I find that it isn't dropping a connection as often as before, much better. Signal strength was pretty weak before, now I think it's better since the connection doesn't drop as much.

Its original capacitors were green Lelon RGA series 100uf 25V capacitors. I guess one bad thing about those capacitors is that they're not even low ESR.

I'm running the DI-624 D1 v4.04 firmware on my WBR-2310 (it is the Rev.A1 hardware version).