E3000 Media Server disconnection

My setup (I'll use wired to ease things up) :
I have Cisco E3000 router wired to a Western Digital HD TV Live Media Player.
A USB external hard drive is plugged into the router and acts as the media server.
E3000 has both a guest and a private network (I'm using the private network with the TV Live).
Workgroup of both TV LIVE and router (and PCs) is "WORKGROUP".
I'm using static, internal IP adresses for the TV LIVE and any other equipment in my network.
When the wired TV LIVE looses its connection, I have to check the connection in my settings and resume playback.
When the wireless TV LIVE looses its connection, I cannot only check the connection again because it hangs at DNS server. I have to go to Wireless favorites, re-connect and resume playback. I'm using a Linksys WUSB600N v2 dongle and the signal only needs to travel a flat 20ft through a single wall.
I think it might be a router setting since both wired and wireless drop connection, but I'm not sure.
What should I check ?
See link below for my almost complete router setup.
http://pages.videotron.com/rouxjean/LIVE/TVLIVE.html
Thanks

Where is the USB adapter is connected....?
Is Digital HD TV Live Media Player working wired and wireless....?
Try the following settings on the router...
On the router setup page,Under the Wireless tab,click on the subtab "Basic Wireless Settings"..Now,select the option "Manual".For 5GHz...Change the Channel Width to 40MHz only and Channel to 161-5.805GHz.For 2.4GHz...Change the Channel Width to 20MHz only and Channel to 11-2.462GHz.Click save settings.
Power Cycle the router and check.

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publish
stream
2013-05-15
16:14:20
Mountain Daylight Time
719_Client
192.168.2.231
1284
0
10
_defaultRoot_
_defaultVHost_
uGenius
_definst_
0
200
192.168.2.219
rtmp
rtmp://ugfms:1935/uGenius
rtmp://ugfms:1935/uGenius
WIN 11,7,700,169
4702111234844082543
3189
3486
normal
719_Client
rtmp://ugfms:1935/uGenius/719_Client
rtmp://ugfms:1935/uGenius/719_Client
0
0
0
0
-1
-1.000000
connect-pending
session
2013-05-15
16:14:20
Mountain Daylight Time
192.168.0.75
192.168.2.231
1284
1
10
_defaultRoot_
_defaultVHost_
uGenius
_definst_
0
100
192.168.0.75
rtmp
rtmp://ugfms:1935/uGenius
rtmp://ugfms:1935/uGenius
WIN 11,7,700,169
4702111234860859759
3073
3073
normal
connect
session
2013-05-15
16:14:20
Mountain Daylight Time
192.168.0.75
192.168.2.231
1284
1
10
_defaultRoot_
_defaultVHost_
uGenius
_definst_
0
200
192.168.0.75
rtmp
rtmp://ugfms:1935/uGenius
rtmp://ugfms:1935/uGenius
WIN 11,7,700,169
4702111234860859759
3073
3073
normal
play
stream
2013-05-15
16:14:20
Mountain Daylight Time
719_Client
192.168.2.231
1284
1
10
_defaultRoot_
_defaultVHost_
uGenius
_definst_
0
200
192.168.0.75
rtmp
rtmp://ugfms:1935/uGenius
rtmp://ugfms:1935/uGenius
WIN 11,7,700,169
4702111234860859759
3248
3704
normal
719_Client
rtmp://ugfms:1935/uGenius/719_Client
rtmp://ugfms:1935/uGenius/719_Client
flv
0
0
0
2
-1
-1.000000
unpublish
stream
2013-05-15
16:14:22
Mountain Daylight Time
719_Client
192.168.2.231
1284
1
10
_defaultRoot_
_defaultVHost_
uGenius
_definst_
2
200
192.168.2.219
rtmp
rtmp://ugfms:1935/uGenius
rtmp://ugfms:1935/uGenius
WIN 11,7,700,169
4702111234844082543
149021
19922
normal
719_Client
rtmp://ugfms:1935/uGenius/719_Client
rtmp://ugfms:1935/uGenius/719_Client
0
0
145667
0
-1
-1.000000
publish
stream
2013-05-15
16:14:22
Mountain Daylight Time
719_Client
192.168.2.231
1284
1
10
_defaultRoot_
_defaultVHost_
uGenius
_definst_
0
200
192.168.2.219
rtmp
rtmp://ugfms:1935/uGenius
rtmp://ugfms:1935/uGenius
WIN 11,7,700,169
4702111234844082543
149021
19922
normal
719_Client
rtmp://ugfms:1935/uGenius/719_Client
rtmp://ugfms:1935/uGenius/719_Client
0
0
0
0
-1
-1.000000
record
stream
2013-05-15
16:14:22
Mountain Daylight Time
719_Client
192.168.2.231
1284
1
10
_defaultRoot_
_defaultVHost_
uGenius
_definst_
0
200
192.168.2.219
rtmp
rtmp://ugfms:1935/uGenius
rtmp://ugfms:1935/uGenius
WIN 11,7,700,169
4702111234844082543
149534
20841
normal
719_Client
rtmp://ugfms:1935/uGenius/719_Client
rtmp://ugfms:1935/uGenius/719_Client
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Media Server 5\applications\uGenius\streams\_definst_\719_Client.flv
flv
13
0.000000
513
0
-1
-1.000000
unpublish
stream
2013-05-15
16:14:28
Mountain Daylight Time
719_Client
192.168.2.231
1284
1
10
_defaultRoot_
_defaultVHost_
uGenius
_definst_
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200
192.168.2.219
rtmp
rtmp://ugfms:1935/uGenius
rtmp://ugfms:1935/uGenius
WIN 11,7,700,169
4702111234844082543
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719_Client
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rtmp://ugfms:1935/uGenius/719_Client
0
0
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disconnect
session
2013-05-15
16:14:29
Mountain Daylight Time
192.168.2.219
192.168.2.231
1284
1
10
_defaultRoot_
_defaultVHost_
uGenius
_definst_
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200
192.168.2.219
rtmp
rtmp://ugfms:1935/uGenius
rtmp://ugfms:1935/uGenius
WIN 11,7,700,169
4702111234844082543
671076
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stop
stream
2013-05-15
16:14:29
Mountain Daylight Time
719_Client
192.168.2.231
1284
1
10
_defaultRoot_
_defaultVHost_
uGenius
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rtmp
rtmp://ugfms:1935/uGenius
rtmp://ugfms:1935/uGenius
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4702111234860859759
290828
672528
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719_Client
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-1.000000

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2 - can this be done at the "Pro" license level?
3 - are two seperate licenses required for this, or is this
usage (since it is any active/passive cluster) covered under a
single license?
the items i found on the site are very specific to setting up
Edge/Origin servers - but we are not looking at getting dedicated
servers for this. we want to use our clustered web site servers.
with thanks for any help provided
rica

Since we're talking about a multiuser app (the chat),
failover becomes a litte more complicated. In this case, we need to
make sure that, as clients connect to the app, the are routed to
the appropraite server. Think about this scenario:
Users A and B enter a chat. During the chat, the primary
server goes down, so clients A and B are moved to the backup
server. A few minutes later, the primary server comes back on line.
After that, client C connects to the chat. Since the primary server
is up, client C connects to that one, but clients A and B are still
on the backup server.
So, we need a means of making sure there is only one instance
of any given chat "room" at any time, and we need to somehow make
sure inbound clients are routed to the appropraite server.
What I like to do in situations like this is buid two
applications. The first application is a "gatekeeper", which
monitors all of the FMS servers in the cluster, and mantiains a
list of active rooms (and their locations). When a client connects,
they first connect to the gatekeeper, which informs the client of
which server their chat room is running on. The client then
disconnects from the gatekeeper, and connects to the chat room.
Along with handling faliover, using an approach like this can
also facilitate load balancing. By monitoring license capacity, the
gatekeeper app can programatically assign chat rooms to servers
based on the number of active connections on each FMS.

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