Hello,
A few days ago I ran into an unprecedent problem while browsing. It all started with few images not loading or being broken. Soon it escalated to all images broken, websites not loading properly (only text displaying at best). Finally this culminated into websites not loading at all. If I tried to access google or wikipedia on FF, the screen would just remain blank, FF wouldn't even load the page. I imagined at first I had gotten some kind of malware or something, but my suspicion fell immediately on my router when I failed to connect even on my Ipad or Iphone.
I later tried to access my router interface, and the same problem I experienced with websites happened: images not loading properly, broken links, sometimes pages simply didn't load at all, just a blank page. I tried unplugging the router from my modem and plugging it back, changing the port through which my computer is connected, turning my router on/off, but all to no avail.
Later the night of the same day I somehow managed to access the wireless network with my Ipad, but problem persisted on my computer. On the next day after I restarted my computer, and somehow the network started working again. Whether the problem was actually with my computer rather than the router and restarting was the deciding factor is still beyond me. When I managed to get to access back the internet, I noticed a number of things, for one, all of my preference settings for all websites had been reset, and I've been logged out of my all accounts, it was as if I was connecting to them for the first time. Aside from that, everything seems to be working perfectly just like before.
I've used the same router for roughly 4 years and have never seen anything like this. So my question is, how can I pinpoint the cause of the problem? I'm still in the dark as to how or why this happened. Is my router too old and dying? Was it just my computer? Or some other factor I haven't accounted for? How can I figure it out?
Has anyone ever experienced something similar? I'm thinking of replacing my router since it's pretty old, but I want to be sure of what caused this. Any thoughts?
A few days ago I ran into an unprecedent problem while browsing. It all started with few images not loading or being broken. Soon it escalated to all images broken, websites not loading properly (only text displaying at best). Finally this culminated into websites not loading at all. If I tried to access google or wikipedia on FF, the screen would just remain blank, FF wouldn't even load the page. I imagined at first I had gotten some kind of malware or something, but my suspicion fell immediately on my router when I failed to connect even on my Ipad or Iphone.
I later tried to access my router interface, and the same problem I experienced with websites happened: images not loading properly, broken links, sometimes pages simply didn't load at all, just a blank page. I tried unplugging the router from my modem and plugging it back, changing the port through which my computer is connected, turning my router on/off, but all to no avail.
Later the night of the same day I somehow managed to access the wireless network with my Ipad, but problem persisted on my computer. On the next day after I restarted my computer, and somehow the network started working again. Whether the problem was actually with my computer rather than the router and restarting was the deciding factor is still beyond me. When I managed to get to access back the internet, I noticed a number of things, for one, all of my preference settings for all websites had been reset, and I've been logged out of my all accounts, it was as if I was connecting to them for the first time. Aside from that, everything seems to be working perfectly just like before.
I've used the same router for roughly 4 years and have never seen anything like this. So my question is, how can I pinpoint the cause of the problem? I'm still in the dark as to how or why this happened. Is my router too old and dying? Was it just my computer? Or some other factor I haven't accounted for? How can I figure it out?
Has anyone ever experienced something similar? I'm thinking of replacing my router since it's pretty old, but I want to be sure of what caused this. Any thoughts?
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