Wireless access point losing wireless security settings

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  • japlytic
    Badcaps Legend
    • Oct 2005
    • 2085
    • Australia

    #1

    Wireless access point losing wireless security settings

    Today, I found that a Telstra-issued ZTE wireless broadband modem from a client of mine lost its wireless network security settings (through no fault of her own), and became "unsecured".
    In the past, I found that a Linksys wireless router from a client of mine suffered the same fate not once, but twice.

    Has anyone else ever experiened such a problem?
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  • redwire
    Badcaps Legend
    • Dec 2010
    • 3900
    • Canada

    #2
    Re: Wireless access point losing wireless security settings

    I had an old Linksys (wired) firewall/router which started giving poor Internet download speeds- some of the time. It would choke and then work fast etc. Then I logged into it and found the security settings had gone to defaults (OFF!)
    I think it progressively got worse, crashed/rebooted and loaded factory-default settings. I don't know how long I was naked (no firewall) but it's always a shocker finding that out. Like leaving your car unlocked in the ghetto...

    Once the speed got really poor, I tore it apart and found the problem was bad capacitors in the router. Changed a bunch of 100uF's and it never happened again.

    Another possibility, if a remote firmware upgrade (Telstra) was done and things went back to factory-default settings.

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