Idle Connections Are Dropping -- Official Response, Please?

Question

I recently used a WRT54G v.3 router with no problems until it one day decided to kick the bucket in an odd manner -- it actually still transmits a network that I can connect to wirelessly, but for whatever reason, it no longer allows either my wired or my wireless to connect to the internet. I figure something must be wrong in the hardware the registers internet input. Anyway --, so I purchased a WRT54G v.6 with SpeedBooster, and that's the one that my problem is occurring with. While everything works fine in the sense that I can connect to the internet, surf and browse normally, etc., I'm finding that my telnet connections are being dropped if they are allowed to idle for too long. It's really frustrating, and I'm wondering if there's anyone out there with a similar problem and, hopefully, a fix. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

See my postings here:
http://forums.linksys.com/linksys/board/message?board.id=Wireless_Routers&thread.id=35284
I had a verison 6 (non speedboost though) that was firware updated as well and had issues with it. My wired side always worked but the wireless side was a nightmare - dropped connections while idle, dropped connections while not idle, machines not connecting above 1MB, etc, etc.
I got fed up with it after toying with it for so long and replaced the version 6 with a version 8 last Friday. I have not had a single problem since the swap.
I spent a good long time reading posts and other articles on the web and one thing that most WRT54G users with problems had in common - all version 6 of the router. I'm sure that there are those out there with a version 6 that run flawlessly but of the complaints I've read, the version 6 was almost always the common point.
That's just my experience though - thought I would pass it on.