Can't connect wirelessly to our WRT54GX4 after a time without rebooting the router

Hi, We have 2 of these routers and can't connect wirelessly to them after a period of time (unknown length at this point) until we reboot the routers. We have some printers cabled to one and a PC to the other. Both loose their ability to allow wireless communications after a while. We reboot them and they work fine. Is it a setting that I can't fine?
Thanks
Mike

hi...first off, ensure that the routers have the latest firmware installed....then try changing the wireless settings on the router
ssid - any non-linksys name
channel - either 1 or 11
enable encryption
beacon interval - 50
Fragmentation threshold - 2306
RTS threshold - 2307

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Re: Can't connect wirelessly HP Photosmart C4780 to MacBook Pro OSX 10.8.2 Mountain Lion.
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