"Upgrade are failed!" Linksys Router refusing to upgrade firmware

mjolnir1134 · August 21st, 2006, 05:52 PM

Today, I went to Circuit city to buy a linksys router. It was that one that was selling for $50 that I was planning on getting for a while.

Now that I have it, its been having a problem keeping me connected to the Internet. After a while, the router will drop my connection going to the modem, yet I can access the router's settings without a hitch.

To temporarily remedy this, I had to unplug the router or reset it, yet it the dropping connections still persist.

I went to the linksys support site and downloaded a firmware upgrade. (v4.30.5)

After extracting the upgrade file from the ZIP folder, I went to the firmware upgrade page in the router's settings. After selecting the .bin firmware upgrade file, the router immediately brings me to a page going "Upgrade are failed!" with a Continue button that leads me back to the firmware upgrade page.

Despite the error message, I can see progress going in the firmware upgrade progress bar going up to 3/4's the way, and after that, a pop-up appears giving me the blasted "Upgrade are failed!" message.

Anyone have any idea on how to upgrade this router so it can upgrade its firmware and hopefully fix my disconnecting problem?

Router: Linksys WRT54G
Current Firmware version: v1.00.6

mjolnir1134 · August 21st, 2006, 07:14 PM

bump? I don't know if I should return or exchange this router or not, its starting to piss me off. I mean, I just bought it today!

**GroundZero3** · August 21st, 2006, 07:16 PM

What verison of the WRT54G do you have?

Look on the bottom of the router next to the model. It should say something like WRT54G ver x

mjolnir1134 · August 21st, 2006, 07:31 PM

O_O;;;

WRT54G v5.

Holy crap, that's something I missed. I downloaded the .bin file from the section where it was for WRT54G v.1.0. I thought Linksys was referring to the firmware versions in the downloads section.

MISTAKE BY ME! MISTAKE!

I downloaded the firmware upgrade from WRT54G v5 and the firmware...upgraded..successfully... O_o;

I can say you've saved the day.

I'll update if the problem still occurs, but it probably won't..

mjolnir1134 · August 21st, 2006, 07:51 PM

...nope, still disconnecting after a while...DAMN!

**GroundZero3** · August 21st, 2006, 07:52 PM

Do you have the wireless card to disconnect for power management?

mjolnir1134 · August 21st, 2006, 07:59 PM

Wireless card? My PC is connected (wired) to my new router.

Is there a setting in the router somewhere that I should configure?

Its because when I get disconnected from the Internet, it seems the router is no longer detecting my modem, as I can still clearly access and ping the router.

**GroundZero3** · August 21st, 2006, 08:12 PM

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i thought you were having a wireless issue. My bad. Are you doing anything when the connection dies? (running torrents, gaming, etc)

HeadBand · August 21st, 2006, 08:15 PM

have you tried resetting the modem , or just the router?

mjolnir1134 · August 21st, 2006, 08:25 PM

Disconnects happen anytime I'm connected.. I can just leave the computer sitting there and it will eventually drop the connection (to the internet, not the router)

I have reset and power cycled the router numerous times. (power cycling brings connection back). I've restored factory defaults and updated firmware to 1.00.9, yet still it happens.

I haven't reset the modem YET, but it sounds like a good idea to check... even though when I was connected to JUST my modem before I got the router it never dropped my connection.