Base station needs restarting regularly to get connection to internet again

Hi,
I've reverted to 5.5.1 firmware on my white round b/g extreme base station with internal modem in the hope it'd make restarting the base station on a regular basis not necessary, but it hasn't.
ethernet modem > base station > g3 powerbook
I think I've got it set up in a pretty standard way. Why do I need to keep restarting it? It seems to kind of grind to a halt, get, possibly slower and slower I think rather than suddenly stop working.
Any ideas?
Cheers,
John.

Sounds to me like a DHCP distribution conflict, but hopefully somebody more knowledgeable than me will take another look now that I've bumped you to the top!
(Dig for DHCP conflicts, see what you can find out)

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