Early Buffalo WPA upgrade strikes users: My wife keeps telling me that early adopters can get burned. Good case in point. Fortunately, Buffalo is doing absolutely the right thing and replacing routers that can't be re-flashed with older or newer firmware. Bravo! (Tim Higgins wrote to note that only 10 routers were affected.)
I was a Buffalo user back in 2000, crazy Engrish manuals, but the stuff worked, glad to see they're taking care of their customers. I think the AP from back then we got is still in use by a friend of mine, not sure who got it when the corpse of our consulting firm was being picked clean post-dot-crash.
We made endless jokes and song parodies about the name, think Bob Marley's "Buffalo Soldier" and let your mind run with it :-)
I was using WBR-G54, my WBR-G54 is now unusable after upgrade to firmware v1.30. Buffalo's tech support did not respond to my e-mail request for help. Poor software release control, untypical customer support.
The big question is will the other companies follow suit? I doubt it but we've already discussed this so we will see.
Update to previous post:
Buffalo tech support e-mailed restoration instructions, my WBR-G54 is now back in working conditions.