Remember the password for a router after a hard reset is “admin” and you have to type in either 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.24.1 to get into it (these numbers should be on the back side of your router.) You can always type in ipconfig /all (at least with windows xp) in the command screen (go to start menu and look for the command prompt or click on “run” in the start menu and type in “command”) to see what your router numbers are.

After the update it appears the message indicators on the phones in the house finally go solid from blinking automatically once the message is taken off a little after the blue lights on the router become solid, sometimes they still don’t — continuing to blink and the work around is hanging up immediately after erasing/saving the new message and that seems to fix the issue.

Whomever said that not having the availability of static IP in the DHCP range has never had to deal with setting up a wireless printer. Having a static IP address that you can assign to one of these devices is almost essential (unless you enjoy having to reset the printer configs to a new address each time you power cycle your router).

I have my DSL service thru AT&T and have a “Speedstream” DSL modem. That modem’s admin screen is what comes up now when I go to 192.168.0.1 . So, before the update, 192.168.0.1 took me to the Linksys router’s admin screen and after the update it takes me to the Speedstream DSL modem’s page. Unfortunately, I am not able to try the update again because I can’t get to the router’s admin site. I’ll try calling tmobile.

No, I did not have the problem you described after upgrading my firmware. If nobody here helps you I suggest you contact T-Mobile with the problem and if nothing else attempt the update again.

What do you mean by your “DSL Modem’s Admin Screen?” Is it a Motorolla modem, 192.168.100.1 rather than the T-Mobile routers 192.168.0.1?

Keep us posted on what happens, this is interesting.

Sorry to hear that. I’d bet the problem is your wireless router in front of the T-Mobile router. But if you’re not willing to ditch that, then I would definitely see about getting the contract rescinded.

For me, I find that the wireless signal from the LinkSys/T-Mobile router is actually slightly better than the D-Link Wireless N router that I was using before, so I just ditched the D-Link and use the LinkSys as my sole router.

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I’ve seen much worse from software and service companies. I’m actually pretty impressed with T-Mobile’s fairly quick action in fixing the problems. Not that the problems shouldn’t have been addressed before the initial release of the product, since these were big/basic problems. I’m speaking specifically about the blue light/service outages happening when dynamic IP addresses change, and the long delay between the time a voicemail is left and the time the flashing voicemail indicator starts flashing on the phones.

Much to my dismay, when the firmware was released, they mentioned neither of these problems as being fixed with this firmware release, however they were fixed for me and, based on emails/feedback I’ve received, many others.

Now, basically the only folks having trouble that I’ve spoken to are folks doing things like piggybacking additional routers, using old phones, fax machines, etc. But the basic service seems to be working very well now.

And let’s face it…as I wrote about in my initial post on my blog about the service…we are still very much guinea pigs in this thing. I think the major concern I have is that T-Mobile will either start upping the price from the current $10 per month, or worse, just go and discontinue the service as not profitable.

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