Linksys E1000 continually loses connection

I recently upgraded from a Linksys WRT54G2 that was a dream and gave me no problems at all to a Linksys E1000 that isn't behaving. Every hour or so it loses its PPPoE connection to the internet, so that both wired and wirelessly connected computers lose access. My laptop is also thrown entirely off the wireless network all together.
This is very annoying, as I occasionally play online games where this sort of thing is highly disruptive, and I also remote connect to a desktop at home and work on there and don't like being dropped. Is this something that I'm going to have to wait for a firmware release to fix or is there something I can do now to fix it?

One possible Solution to this:   
In the wireless settings, the one where you can choose Mixed mode b/g/n etc,  make sure that the channel is set to a fixed number that works with all of your devices,  i.e. do not set it to Auto.    you can have auto or 20 mhz or 40 mhz for the channel frequency setting but dont set the channel number to auto.  from random trials i chose 5 as it worked with almost every wifi devices i have. its best not to go above single digits. I believe this is also true for many other routers out there. if you wanna know why you can read on below.
This is the cause of all the problems in this thread i believe.and this following solution worked for me every time, hope it works for you too:
every now and then i used to have the wifi router disappeared and couldnt even find the SSID, only ethernet connected computers can connect with the router.  
one time i realised that my computer has the connection but my nexus s doesnt, couldnt even see the SSID, so i looked up on the internet and found stuffs about the different specs of wifi chips and what they have to do with the channels.
Apparently some wifi chips have different channel settings so there may be cases where one device still has the connection and the other couldnt see the same wifi network.   
So thats where I went to isolate the problem on my router settings testing all the different settings i could to get my nexus s to see the SSID, finally it was the channel numbers lower than 10 that did the trick.
hope that helps anyone out there before they think that this is a more complicated issue ^^"

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