Linksys connection help: Router WRT54G

Hi,
  I currently have a wireless routher WRT54G and have had it for about 4 years now.  Ever since purchasing it, I have frequently had problems with its connection.  It will randomly stop connecting to the internet.  I know nothing is wrong with the modem or the actual internet, because connecting directly to the modem allows me to regularly search the internet. 
  I have called the linksys technical support/customer service several times and they refuse to help me at all, or even let me speak with a technician unless I pay a $32 extended service fee, because apparently my warranty has run out.  So if anyone at all could help me solve this problem and be able to reconnect to the internet using the wireless router, because linksys representitives are utterly useless, it would be greatly appreciated.
thanks in advance

Are you saying that when using the router with a cable to your PC you have no problems reaching the internet, BUT when you use a wireless connection to your PC you have an intermittent connection to the internet? 

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