Often forgotten about until it stops working, a wireless router, also called a Wi-Fi router, combines the functions of both a wireless access point and a traditional router. Even though wireless ...

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I've had this happen twice, where I notice that my router randomly reverted back to the default settings. I have a Linksys WRT54G, and the factory-default means no wireless security plus I live in an ...