Belkin Router Owners Suffering Massive Outages

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday October 7, 2014 @07:49AM from the who-needs-functioning-equipment-anyway dept.

An anonymous reader writes: ISPs around the country are being kept busy today answering calls from frustrated customers with Belkin routers. Overnight, a firmware issue left many of the Belkin devices with no access to the customer's broadband connection. Initial speculation was that a faulty firmware upgrade caused the devices to lose connectivity, but even users with automatic updates disabled are running into trouble. The problem seems to be that the routers "occasionally ping heartbeat.belkin.com to detect network connectivity," but are suddenly unable to get a response. Belkin has acknowledged the issue and posted a workaround while they work on a fix.

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Re: Oh hey, consumers! by Grishnakh · 2014-10-07 15:48 · Score: -1, Offtopic

He's probably a Democrat voter.
What's weird is that, 10 years ago, this is what you would have heard from a Republican voter. But put a Democrat president in the white house with exactly the same policies and suddenly all the Democrats will adopt the security-over-privacy mindset, while all the Republicans abandon it because they have to be different from the Democrats.