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mechtheist

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Today my Linksys WRT610n kinda died, half-way. I am not sure but there was a cat sitting on the power transformer when I looked after seeing the lights all out.
OK, powered back up and the router functions are dead, I can still talk amongst the 3 PC's connected to it, and it lets me get on the internet with my main PC (thankfully it chose that one), so it is acting like a switch now, that is all that shows in the windows network map, says 'switch". I have cycled power numerous times, even letting it sit unpowered for 30min+ and it ain't coming back. Went back to provided CD and it can't talk to router. Wireless doesn't work.
Any ideas of WTF, and is there anything I can use this thing for besides paperweight?
thanks for any info.
 
If you can still reach the Internet while connected to a router LAN port, the router is still working.

If you can log into the router admin, I'd try reloading firmware.
 

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