Windows XP SP3 causing buggy home routers to crash

u752181 (New user):

This just gives me more concern and sorrow for the fading journalistic standards at APC. Let's look at alternative headlines that could have been used for this article:

One Model of Router Fails in XP SP3
Billion Router incompatible with XP SP3

Yet we get "Router Crashes Blamed on XP SP3". SP3 was in beta for some time. Why didn't Billion test it? They would have had the opportunity to be part of the test program. I suspect they did test it and knew it had a problem not with SP3 but with standards compliance (hence the firmware patch).

Your headline also seeks to inflame by implying that the problem could apply to all routers. Did we have multiple crashes on 1 router model or multiple crashes on many router models. You cannot tell from your inflammatory headline. We later find out that 1 router model from a small supplier has a problem.

You also fail to investigate specifically why the router failed. Is there some non standard setting which caused it? Is there some other failure by Billion. I mean if one model of router crashes under SP3 and every other router model in the world works, Microsoft gets the blame? Yeah right. What is different with this model from the other Billion models.

All you have done here is publish the press release from Billion where they seek to pass the blame off onto Microsoft for their products failure under SP3. If Micosoft is to blame then why does the router need a firmware upgrade? Why not fix XP or issue a software patch?

You need to get beyong recycling press releases and do some investigation? Find out specifically why the router fails and then publish the results of your investigation.

Do work you can be proud of? I live in hope for the return of the glory days of APC journalistic standards.

jake (User):

my vista computer has been reseting my router for ages but olny happens wen i go to myspace

u752181 (New user):

Thanks for listening

ajaxxxaja (New user):

yea...i just got sp3 on autoupdate..and bam my net started rebooting... i use a netgear router...once i rolled it back to sp2..it worked like a charm...but i forgot to stop the autoupdate...at night it went back and bam again my net con got fudged up again!!!!!

ajaxxxaja (New user):

trying to do a system restore...sigh

IanH (New user):

where about do you install it or past it?

IanH (New user):

where about do you install it or past it?

IanH (New user):

I just downloaded it and now I need to know where install it or Paste it.. Please help

Jobejeeb (New user):

I use a netgear antennae and a 2Wire router, and ever since the update from two nights ago, my browsers stopped connecting to the internet along with every other program except for MSN and Skype. I know it has to do with the update because I did a system restore to the day before it updated and now my browsers work fine.