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I mentioned last week that my modem/router was playing up and that I was going to attempt to fix it. It seems (so far!) that it has been a success, so I've written a small tutorial for those wanting to try it as well. Thanks to "revs per min" on whirlpool for helping me out with locating the faulty capacitor. This is for the "v2" wag54g, v1 and v3's have a different layout. This should fix the problem of ethernet ports dropping out and/or being limited to 10mbps. For parts, you just need to head into dick smiths, or jaycar and pick up a 33uF 16v electrolytic capacitor. They should be only a few cents each, and you only need 1, but you might like to get a couple just in case. You'll also need a soldering iron, solder, a pair of good pliers and a screwdriver. 1. First step is to take about your modem, they're very easy to get into - start by locating the front rubber "feet" and pop them out to reveil 2 screws - take the screws out. 2. Pull off the front panel (with a bit of wriggling). 3. Slide the lower board out from the top cover, being careful of the wire leading to the aerial. You can remove the arial connector just by popping it off. 4. There is a single screw you need to remove which holds the main board onto it's plastic tray.
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To remove, I found the best way is to simply pry it from the board using a pair of pliers (leaving the legs still in place). Use your soldering iron to heat the points on the bottom of the board, and a pair of pliers to "pull" the legs on the otherside out once hot enough. Be careful not to overheat the surrounding components. This is a little tricky, and the solder is quite hard to melt on these particular joints.
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Once you have the capacitor+legs removed, trim the legs on your replacement capacitor down, as they only need a few mm to be seated in place. Make sure that you take note of which way to mount it, the grey bar (with "arrows") should face the same way as the one which you removed. Heat the solder joints on the bottom of the board and try to push your new capacitor into the mounting holes, it might take some fiddling around. After that is done, hopefully you'll have yourself a fully working wag54g again! You can see from my example below, the replaced capacitor is slightly taller than the others.
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Hi! I have to force my network card to work at 10mbit with my wag54g, even doing this resulted on the connection still would drop from time to time. Following your guide seems to have fixed this, but i still have to force it 10mbits. I suspect i have to change other capacitor. Does any one know witch on should i do next?
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Fixed two of my wireless routers. One was given to my friend a while ago, and started playing, so I assumed it's nackard... My one started playing 8 months later with a same problem, ethernet kept disappearing... Googled it, as thought there must be a common problem, and voila - found an answer to my question why it doesn't work. Just fixed both of my routers for 1.70. Thanks for the guide
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ditto ... just spent 22c and a bit of fiddly time with the soldering iron and, voila, good as new. Magnficent!
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Great howto, thanks. I used this to fix a version 1.2 WAG54G and now it's going great. I also have a version 2, but the capacitors around the chip are all 22uF, not 33uF as your howto states. Did yours come with 33uF capacitors or did you replace the 22uF caps with higher-value ones for some reason? thanks, Greg
Same picture & Fix Works for AG-241 as well. They all do it after a couple of years. Thanks for the fix!
Thanks again for the tutorial. I fixed my Wag54Gv2 with 22uF caps in the end, but had to replace all four before the ethernet ports sprang back to life.
Hi! Nice article! Question to GREG: what capasitors have you replaced?
22uF also did the job! I experienced big problems over time with my linkspeed, and when I connected my Synology NAS, the problems really came up. I replaced the cap with a 22uF type and it works great. Keep up the good work!
I found this site a little too late! I'd figured out the problem myself. Rather than replace the faulty caps with the same type, I used tantalums - I had 10uF 25V ones on hand so that what I used. Replacing the faulty caps with the same sort will mean the same problem will crop up again - I'm lazy so I like to fix things once! FYI the telltale is the ADM6996l chip running hot - nearly too hot to touch. You can measure the voltage on the tag of the transistor (fet??) and if it's >1.8v then the caps are most likely dud.
Got my ether back with a 22 uf from an old network adapter. Total cost: NONE. Plus I enjoyed doing it. Thanks
Fuck ! The wag54g v2 was the best all in one modem i ever had. if i only knew about this tut a year ago :(( I replaced mine with RMA in change of a goddamn wag160n whom firmware is shitty and with drops and a lot more problems :-/ The old Linksys products
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where good but the new ones omg their really bad stuff ! Im gona find a secondhand v2 and do this capacitor thing when it gives problems again.. Thnx for sharing dude !
It worked !!! But it was a lot of fiddeling around with the soldering iron. The markings were different on the new capacitor. Black was grey and visa versa. I just stuck to the arrow marking and hoped for the best
Thanks for that, it works for mine, though it is not as easy as what I thought to take out the old capacitor. I got my 33uF 25V from jaycar.
Thanks for this guide. My capacitors are 33uF 16v and I had to replace all four, too!
Follow the very throughful guide, my wag54g back to work again, thank you very much!
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