My Asus RT-N66U crashed upgrading to 3.0.0.4.374.32. Urgent Help Please

[PrivateJoker]

I didn't do anything with the CD, they're always out of date. Downloaded the manual.

I know I'm being kind of anal, but sidenote to Asus (there's an Asus rep that reads these, right?) if you're listening, just put the PDFs on your website so that all browsers and mobile devices on earth can just open and view them right there. You're archiving a 7.136MB PDF to get it down to a 7.015MB ZIP file. I will gladly chip in the extra $0.47 @ year it will cost you to host and provide those files natively as uncompressed PDFs.

But, I paid $160 for your router, I want to be able to use the manual however I see fit. If you were smart you would ship the routers with the PDF manual already in them, if not a link to web based (non restricted PDF) then maybe the manual built into the help of the router. I dunno. And also, please don't lock down manual PDFs. I might want to take notes on it, edit it for my own personal reference with notes, links, or maybe shrink it down from its 7mb size to something even smaller, but I can't because you password protect it. Who does that to their manuals? Watermark the pages, whatever, but honestly, you're lucky for every person that consults the manual - that's saving you tech support, you should make that document as easy as possible to find, access, link to, allow users to make edits/markups on their local copy, etc. Anything you do to hinder that increases cost of support.

Not one person in these forums can link to a specific page in the manual specifying something that might answer a question because you don't host the actual PDF files, and the ones inside your ZIPs are locked down.

For comparison, on the other hand, not great (still a file that could be shrunk a bit but outdated and relatively weak p/w control keeps it pretty large) but a more user friendly approach, here's a manufactuer that let's you link directly to their manual PDFs, and I can say "try boosting your dialog norm up +6 dB, per this setting" and link right to that page in a forum, email, etc.

http://usa.denon.com/DocumentMaster/US/AVR-1613 Owners Manual.pdf#page=85

 

[Speedy164]

Your router's normal address is 192.166.1.1 and if you type that into your browser, you should be able to see the N66U web page and have another go at flashing the modem.

I can only speak for OS X users but I would go to the Network preferences, set DHCP Manually, choose 192.168.1.2 as the IP address and then the browser should let me see the router at 192.168.1.1.

Once you have successfully reapplied the firmware you should be able to reset your network settings back to what they were.

Hey guys sorry to bring up an old post but i am currently having the same problem except i have a Mac Os x and i'm following your directions and nothing.

My question is my router is connected by ethernet cable to my modem where i get my internet service from time warner cable. when setting the static ip address do i need to remove the ethernet cable from my modem to the router? do the static ip and just connected the ethernet cable from router to my mac? or do i need to connect an ethernet cable from modem to router and router to mac?