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Is that every wireless router will hang oftenly?
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That's a pretty cool idea. I need to figure out if I can do that.
I have the same LinkSys router that others are complaining about, and yeah, ours spaces out a few times a week. Sometimes you can just wait awhile and it will come back online; other times, I have to go upstairs, unplug it and then plug it back in to "reboot".
I'm not sure how much the placement (location) of our router has to do with our problem. The router is upstairs, but we almost always have our notebooks downstairs -- so there's definitely some interference factors to consider.
I have a Linksys WRT54GS that I use the wireless for my MacBook and is wired by ethernet to a PC. The PC is fine, but ever since yesterday, the WiFi keeps dropping from my MacBook, I can't keep a connection for more than 2 minutes. And when the network drops, it even disappears from the AirPort list....broken router?
It's really doing my head in, as I don't have money to replace it.
It's really doing my head in, as I don't have money to replace it.
It seems like the only router that I hear has no complain is apple airport extreme..
I might wait till the wireless-n be stable, and I will get one of them
The standard is probably quite fixed at this stage.
Do you know the old Airport Extreme was made to the draft-g standard? We all know what happened there, it worked perfectly fine. If you need it get one today, it will keep chugging on and on (and if you happen to have Applecare on a single computer at all times...) and on forever...
Well, it's either a broken router or a broken MacBook. Or both.
Does the MacBook seem to be able to sustain a Wi-Fi connection to other wireless networks (i.e. public hotspots)? If so, there's probably nothing wrong with the MacBook.
Likewise, if you can get some friends to come over with their notebook computers (or other Wi-Fi devices), you could see if they're able to sustain a connection to your wireless network at home.
These routers just have problems supporting multiple connections. (ie torrents). It just kills the wireless portion of the router, leaving the wired ports working. Last night I bought one of the newer Belkins for my aunt (F5D7230-4) which is notorious for crashing. It can only support 50 connections at one time, so you have to limit your torrent client to maybe 40 global connections. The other alternative to you guys with the wrt54gs, if they are older, you can flash them with a 3rd party firmware (openwrt, ddwrt, etc..). Rule of thumb for these routers that crash is to not download torrents over wireless, but if you do toy around with the global connections limit in your client and get the right value. The reason the Belkins crash is because it gets so many requests, it then thinks it's being attacked, so it shuts down. This might be the case with the other routers, depending if they have the built in ddos prevention.
I have a old Airport Extreme (the UFO looking 802.11g) and I never reboot it.
I don't have any network issues either (except on one crappy PC), the other 5 or 6 computers that use seem to be fine.
For the bad PC, I just drop and renew the DHCP lease and it works fine again.
I don't have any network issues either (except on one crappy PC), the other 5 or 6 computers that use seem to be fine.
For the bad PC, I just drop and renew the DHCP lease and it works fine again.