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Linksys BEFSR41 Router Teardown

Written By: Ryan McLeod (and 5 other contributors)

Published: May 22, 2010

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Linksys BEFSR41 Router Teardown

Written By: Ryan McLeod (and 5 other contributors)

Published: May 22, 2010

Comments: 2
Favorites: 17
Views: 14.5k

Teardown

Introduction

Demo teardown at Maker-Faire 2010

This teardown is not a repair guide. To repair your Linksys BEFSR41 Router, use our service manual.

Step 1 Linksys BEFSR41 Router Teardown

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Top down view of the device.

Step 2

There actually aren't any screws or notches under the rubber feet on this model. A little force is all that's needed to pull off the front blue panel. (The front is held on by a recess/notch on each side)

Step 3

Once the front blue panel is off, the top panel slides back and then comes off easily (it's connected to the bottom panel by two plastic notches).

Step 4

One the top panel is removed there is one screw that must be removed before the bottom panel can slide off the circuit board.
1x small philips-head screw

Step 5

After removing the single screw and sliding off the bottom panel, all that is left is the main circuit board.
Main Components
Barrel-plug power connection / CAT5 / Reset button
Power Control
Line-drivers (allow CAT5 cables to carry data for 100m)
RAM (2Mb) (Stores MAC tables, etc)
KS8695 ARM922 (ARM Core, 5 switchboards, tcp/ip/udp packet interface)
RAM (1Mb )