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Showing Original Post only (View all)Is this legal? Our router was programed to turn off when warranty expired @ 2 years [View all]
Yesterday our router stopped working on our PC. When Mr MBZ contacted the company they said that if he bought another warranty they would fix it. Well, we are really tight fisted with our money here so Mr set about to find out how to fix it on his own searching the internet for answers. Finally he found that all he needs to do is--if you still have the original cd/disk--is re-install the program. He was told that someone paid the fee for the source code and found that it is programed to stop working when the warranty is up for renewal. We found our cd and fixed the problem.
How can this be legal? The company doesn't tell you this when you buy their product, and they hid this fact when we called them for assistance. They did though push us to buy another warranty. Legal?
On edit, it is Linksys by cisco, model# wrt54g2v1.We bought the router seperate from our pc and installed it ourselves.