bobeverywhere Posted September 24, 2007 Report Share Posted September 24, 2007 I've got a Linksys WRT54G V.6 router that I use to share our internet connection with me and my 4 roommates. The thing constantly crashes (anywhere from 4 hours to 2 days uptime generally) and I have to either reset or unplug and start it back up, do quite a bit of reconfiguring to get back onto my ISP. I've seen online that this is a fairly common problem but can't seem to find a good solution. I've seen quite a bit about using 3rd party firmware and was wondering if that was a true solution or anything else. Current setup:Internet: 512kb HPNA (sortof DSLish, comes through the phoneline to an adapter which is conneted to the router). Crappy I know, but it's whats provided with the apartment. Looking to upgradeComputers: 1 MacMini (Ethernet)1 WindowsXP (Ethernet)4 Laptops, I believe 3 XP and 1 VistaNewest Linksys Firmware on router; v1.02.2, Jun. 7, 2007Not sure about traffic; mostly school documents, general browsing, probably some bittorrent or other P2P from other roommatesI know next to nothing about networking so if you need anymore information that I haven't provided please ask. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bozodog Posted September 24, 2007 Report Share Posted September 24, 2007 I don't know the answer, but our Linksys would need rebooting every time my hubby did "power downloading" during the night. I'd wake up to a locked up net connection. Our solution was for me to disconnect the power to it for a reboot. He did do something to configure it after I whined a bunch, but the bugger now drops out in hot weather. He says it probably a cold solder connection. We are on cable, so I don't know why you have to do all the ISP stuff. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sethook Posted September 24, 2007 Report Share Posted September 24, 2007 Check out the last comment in this thread. From Linksys..... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
garmanma Posted September 24, 2007 Report Share Posted September 24, 2007 A word of caution if you update the firmware. Read instructions carefully or you'll end up with a brickMark Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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