I would upgrade the firmware, but it won't respond to a ping, nor will the admin system load (pretty much the same problem).
This is after what I'm sure amounts to several hundred resets and every possible combination of cables, IP addresses and PCs I could think of. I've officially given up.
I recently got a BEFSR81 to share a cable connection, and at one point it worked. Then I unplugged it for a while, and now suddenly it won't work. Computers connected to it can't ping or browse to 192.168.1.1 - or even to eachother. They can't lease IPs from the DHCP server. In fact, they...