Linksys → [Wireless] SSID reset by itself. Why? WRT54G

WRT54GSV4

Unexpectedly, the SSID went from one that I had set and reverted back to "Linksys."

I don't know why. Is there a way to find out why it happened?

#1 Are you sure that is your router and not someone else's router, that you are seeing?

#2 Are you sure that no one reset the router back to the defaults?

1, yes. I'm in a very remote location.
2, mostly yes. Others use the WiFi, but no one else would even know how to reach the router config page and make such a change, nor would they really want to.

thanks

Someone else was having this same issue.

I used Google to look it up, and here are some of the results

»forums.qrz.com/archive/i ··· 838.html

»community.linksys.com/t5 ··· p/200261

When this happened to me, I found the router completely reset itself - like the configuration information got corrupted and it decided to reload the settings from scratch. It was hidden inside a cupboard and the only thing was a power outage that happened that appeared to scramble the memory. Because after resetting all the settings, it was fine.

Router is 8-9 years old now. Sounds like its slowly dying.

Might be able to save it with some dd-WRT that won't help with the aging WIFI-G limit of the hardware. Unless money is priority, I suggest a new router.

»www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/inde ··· 4GS_v4.0