That is a suite router!

I would suggest, to solve your issues, a quick upgrade to a better router image like OpenWRT.


It's also a good possibility that distributed Denial of Service attacks (script kiddies spoofing source IPs as China) are allowing the router to kick over and allow remote management or worse.

The real deal is what the WRT54G can do, with the right replacement firmware, that you’d only expect to find on a commercial-grade router costing several times as much.

Besides Linksys’ own official firmware, there are more than a dozen varieties of firmware replacements available for the WRT54G.

Get into the habit of saving your configuration and possibly being able to reflash your equipment quickly.

Warning!  This is advanced (and really fun and addicting) geeking with Linux networking.


http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/tutorials/article.php/3562391

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Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:48:03 -0700
Subject: Re: Router problem
From: dlshumway@gmail.com
To: m.jarvis@cox.net; plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us



On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Mark Jarvis <m.jarvis@cox.net> 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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I have gone through three of these routers and the symptoms of imminent failure were always exactly as you described. I have heard that replacing the firmware with Tomato or DD-WRT will fix the issue (unless the hardware is failing), but frankly, replacing it with a D-Link has worked wonders. No intermittant disconnects. Faster access. Better configuration.

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