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Voyager 2110 router / Plus.net / disconnects / firmware

(Not the most imaginitive post title, but…!)

I stupidly upgraded the firmware in my BT Voyager 2110 router to the latest version, 3.03c. Stupid, stupid, stupid. “If it ain’t broke…”, etc.

The 3.03c firmware has fails to automatically reconnect whenever the line drops, as it does regularly around these parts. So I had three options:

  1. Whinge, moan, drink whisky, kick the cat
  2. Write a script which automatically hits the [Connect] button in the web interface every minute
  3. Find some firmware which doesn’t have the problem

Given that I have no cat, and absolutely no desire to write a shitty script to fix a stupid problem, it ended in a firmware hunt.

Turns out that the nice folk at Andrews and Arnold have seen this problem before. And they’ve got the GPL’d sources from BT and fixed the problem too. Nice work chaps! (Now all you need to do is fix the crufty rebranding exercise in the admin web pages of the router – which looks like it was done by a 5 year-old)

Postscript: since first writing this post, BT have released updates to the Voyager 2110 firmware – version 3.30r for the UK and version 3.62 for the Republic of Ireland.

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Filed under tech : Comments (0) : Jun 24th, 2008