Yeah I have a couple of those in my living room and you periodically can't
connect to them, and I just do the unplug, wait 10-20 secs, and plug back in
and then the laptops having issues (a couple WinXP and a Macbook) usually
connect back up fine...so it seems like a normal thing with these devices
over time; happened with my older netgears and just seems like it's how
they're designed, fwiw.
BINO
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert Martin Jr.
Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 9:50 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [H] Wireless part of Linksys router dying?
A temporary solution is to set the WRT54G to reboot every few hours
automatically. Just make sure you don't schedule these in the middle of
periods you need a uninterrupted wifi connection. There's an area in the web
config that lets you specify reboot intervals.
I have a really old WRT54G that still works but only gets about 1/3 of the
speed it used to. I believe you can get some progressive decline in
performance over time, if the unit doesn't just die outright. Flashing new
firmware doesn't help on my older unit.
lopaka
--- On Thu, 8/20/09, Anthony Q. Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Anthony Q. Martin <[email protected]>
Subject: [H] Wireless part of Linksys router dying?
To: [email protected]
Date: Thursday, August 20, 2009, 3:16 AM
I have a linksys WRT54G which I feed into a wireless signal booster (linksys
WSB24). This provides my wireless downstairs where I have a laptop and
TivoHD. The Tivo is on one end of the house and the router on the other
end, so these two are about as far apart as they can get inside my house.
Lately, the wireless network has been dropping out a lot. While I can get
to the internet on the wired computers, I can't transfer a file from the
TIVO. The TIVO signal strength will be good (68-72%), but the TIVO claims
it can't find a gateway (this is when in the problem state, not when things
are working normally). Also, on the Tivo, Netflix won't be there and other
features that have to go over wireless will be missing due to lack of
network connections
It seems that if I just unplug the router for a second and plug it back
in...things start working again. However, this doesn't seem to provide a
permanent fix as it all happens again eventually. It seems as if the
wireless network is dropping out...and it seems as if the laptop can still
get to the internet, though I might be wrong about all of the details as I'm
not using that laptop a lot.
Should I get a new router?
