noisy mega105wr

[Sharan]

It sounds like a dialup connection. All the time.

 

[Mineer]

It sounds like a dialup connection. All the time.

do you have filters on the line ..... oh do you mean the actual devise is make the dailup sounds

 

[Sharan]

Yes, the modem itself. Works perfectly, except for the noise. Bloody irritating

 

[T-Man]

Mine did the same..

 

[Zewp]

Chuck it and get another router. The 105wr is a piece of junk. Had endless issues with it back when we were using it.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

OPen it and see if you can find a speaker. Disconnect it. Or just put a blob of prestik on it.

Or get a shoe box, line with foam and put the noisy bugger in there. (Might be a fire risk)

But easiest is just to chuck it and get a new one

 

[Sharan]

mmm.... will look for a speaker.

Would love to get a new one, but can't right now

 

[Zewp]

Ah, understandable. Routers can be quite expensive if you're shopping for specs.

Another very prominent issue with the 105WR is that a flaw in its firmware prevents its WPA2 key from being changed, so if anyone were to get their hands on it they'd have free access to your wifi if you enabled it.

 

[coralsea]

I'm not sure about the 105's (I don't remember any speakers, but I didn't look very hard), however I've fixed a number of 100/200's iirc. There are two problems, firstly : the unit itself is pretty much OEM reject quality, they produce a lot of heat and have a extremely noisy radio. Telkom got these for next to nothing, slapped on a new enclosure and hacked the firmware a bit. Anyway, some of the units have tiny little 2cm odd fans, these are extremely whiny and die very easily. If its whining, it'll be dead soon, once it dies, the unit will soon cook itself. The first unit I saw had melted the top surface, caving in and creating a fire hazard If you cant bin the router, I'd suggest cutting a large hole out of the upper surface and perhaps putting in a low rpm 8cm fan (4cm is fine, but they're noisy and unreliable... and you can get 8cm at any PC store).

The next thing is, the firmware is terrible: It's a very hacked together combination, rebranded and with a few changes to default values. That said, the source is _ancient_ (you can find it if you dig around, but the kernel is from ~2003), there's a lot of stuff that's not really working, unsafe fixes and bandages. The people who rebranded it and made the required changes seemed to even be struggling to compile it. That said, the WPA key issue was pretty simple; the PSK can not contain non-hex characters - like a WEP key. I have a feeling the hardware could just do WPA/2, and the guys that hacked the firmware for Telkom were tasked with adding support for it, however they didn't change the checks to allow the correct characters. I think it also has the same character limit.

Try making your pass out of [0123456789abcdef] - DEADBEEF or whatevs.

YMMV

 

[eddief1]

Chuck it and get another router. The 105wr is a piece of junk. Had endless issues with it back when we were using it.

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