Believe it or not, after only 2 official days of having this router (WRT 350N). I now have to RMA it back t Newegg. I knew something was fishy when i tried to flash the firmware to the latest update which fixed some critical issues. Apparently after it got to 90% it failed. Thinking nothing of it and that there was some sort of failsafe in place..the router still functioned…until i restarted it today. My worst nightmare had just come true, not only did the flash fail but the router was now a 150 dollar brick. After trying multiple times to get it to respond by hard resetting it, and tftp into it…all hope was lost. I sadly put my newly purchased gigabit wireless N router back into the box, requested the RMA information from newegg and is now packaged up and ready to go to california to be replaced….
Lessons learned from this experience:
- Linksys firmware is crap..
- wondering why theres not a failsafe back up like motherboards have now…seriously can it not be put on a router?
- DD WRT is by far the best firmware and i should have flashed it with that instead of the linksys update.
Good thing my wife is understanding…and realizes it wasnt entirely my fault.. but she did give me this funny look after i told her my router was broken…oh well..now to wait on a replacement
UPDATE: Well some great news! No need to RMA it , i figured out a way to Un-brick it and it worked… *Stupid linksys firmware*
