My in-laws were having the same kind of problem with their Linksys router. I think they tried two of them. Before they gave up on their second one I convinced them to let me try to flash a third-party firmware in to it (DD-WRT, to be exact; I hear Tomato is very good as well). They haven't had any problems with it since DD-WRT was flashed in there.
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Jon M. Hanson (N7ZVJ)

On Mar 16, 2009, at 8:31 PM, Mark Jarvis wrote:


I have a laptop connected via wireless & two computers connected via cable to a Linksys WRT54G router which is connected to a Linksys cable modem. Most of the time everything is OK but every day or four the router & the cable modem quit talking. When this happens, unplugging the router for 15 or 20 seconds fixes the problem. Friend wife is getting very tired of the interruptions & says "If that router isn't working right, get a new one!"

Before I spend the $$ for a new router, I decided to try upgrading the firmware on what I have. I went to Linksys.com & downloaded a firmware upgrade. I was going to do the recommended backup of the router settings before installing it, but I can't connect to the the blasted router! As instructed, I tried connecting to http://192.168.1.1/. I've tried from Seamonkey, Mozilla, & IE7 and get "Network Timeout" from all.

Is there something I'm missing, or is the router is trying to tell me that it's tired of life?
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