Updated my Netgear WNR 3500 Router’s Firmware
This morning I remembered that yesterday I was having a few issues getting into the house from the net. Actually, I couldn't. So I wanted to have a look at things before I took off for the train. When I hit the router's configuration page I noticed that there was a firmware upgrade - several minor-point updates, but nothing apparently major. So I decided to update it.
I probably should have thought this through first.
I was on my MacBook Pro. Connected to the router. So I killed the update.
I had to go down and use my iMac which was hard-wired into the network and even then I had to power-cycle the router because it was smart enough to know that it was being managed from another IP address. The problem was the WiFi was dead due to the update. So I had to power-cycle it and then do the update from the hard-wired machine.
Now, had I been smarter, I'd have switched to the other WiFi router before connecting to the first router and doing the update. Had I done that, I'd have been golden. Alas, it was clear right away when I didn't.
In the end, the update was good and the connectivity returned. I'm not really sure if that was the issue, or something else, but the update was necessary and that fixed things.