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Problem In Short: My connection is going in and out randomly. One desktop, two laptops connected wirelessly. Same problem on Xbox360. I've been having problems for the last 2 months or so. My connection will randomly hang or go out completely and then come back. The timing will differ each time - sometimes every few minutes, others every hour or so. It started happening with my WRT54G. First, I thought it might have been my modem. Comcast replaced it with a brand new one - still had the same problem. Figured it would have to been the router, and considering it was already pretty old, I went out and bought the WRT160N. Installed everything accordingly, and STILL had the same problem. I lost count of how many times I've called Linksys. Tried power-cycling, tried changing router settings such as radioband, channel, Beacon Interval, MTU, etc.. and still nothing. I have one Dell Desktop connected to the Router, and then two laptops connected to the network wireless. I also have my Xbox360 connected to the network as well. I have the same problem during online games, everything will start out fine but a few minutes in it will either start lagging or lose the connection completely.
ETA: Could it be a problem with the new version of Utorrent (1.7.7)? Any help would be appreciated. Message Edited by SM26 on 05-09-2008 11:06 AM
Message Edited by SM26 on 05-09-2008 11:07 AM
Message Edited by SM26 on 05-09-2008 11:07 AM

I also have a connection problem with WRT54G v7 running the latest firmware.
Here's what happens: Seems like a rather serious bug in the firmware causes a watchdog bite.
********** Ensable sysWatchdog ***************
NMI (watchdog): ErrorPC: 0x801aa11c
epc: 0x801aaba0 bva: 0x348c0040 sr: 0x10489c07 cse: 0x10801000
R0: r0: 0x00000000 at: 0x00080000 v0: 0x00001000 v1: 0x00000001
R4: a0: 0x10009c01 a1: 0x00000050 a2: 0x0000002b a3: 0x807f6877
R8: t0: 0x00000000 t1: 0x80349744 t2: 0x80349754 t3: 0x00000000
R12: t4: 0x00000000 t5: 0x00000019 t6: 0x0052bd74 t7: 0x00000000
R16: s0: 0x10009c01 s1: 0x00000000 s2: 0x00000000 s3: 0x00000000
R20: s4: 0x00000000 s5: 0x00000000 s6: 0x800576dc s7: 0x00000000
R24: t8: 0x00000000 t9: 0x00000008 k0: 0x00000000 k1: 0x00000000
R28: gp: 0x80351890 sp: 0x803dde20 fp: 0x00000000 ra: 0x80019e88
trying NMI callback: 0x802bf818
watchdog: missed soft update
intContext: true
ErrorPC: 0x801aa11c
4.1.2.56SP4
Task Id: 0x805fa060 strt
stack dump: 0x803dde20
*0xeeeeeeee *0xeeeeeeee *0xeeeeeeee *0xeeeeeeee 0x00000031 0x10801000
*0xeeeeeeee *0xeeeeeeee *0xeeeeeeee *0xeeeeeeee 0x10009c03 *0x801aaba0
0x080419b0 0x00000000 0x00000000 *0x80350000 *0xb100003c 0x00000001
0x10009c01 0x00000050 0x0000002b *0x807f6877 0x3c1a801b 0x10009c00
0x00000004 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000019 0x0052bd74 0x00000000
*0xeeeeeeee *0xeeeeeeee *0xeeeeeeee *0xeeeeeeee *0xeeeeeeee *0xeeeeeeee
*0xeeeeeeee *0xeeeeeeee 0x00000000 0x00000008 *0xeeeeeeee *0xeeeeeeee
*0xeeeeeeee *0x805f9fb8 *0xeeeeeeee *0x80019e88 *0xeeeeeeee *0xeeeeeeee
0x00000000 0x00000010 0x011ac090 0x28900905 *0x803ddee0 0x000358a1
0x09888181 0x0288004c 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x40a41002 0x02102619
0x44122900 0x16080410 0x100000c0 0x00040824 0x00a800c0 *0x8940a000
0x08449110 0x20060001 *0x88088410 *0xa07c1044 0x40040a80 0x55800000
0x09442840 0x10000582 0x02418244 *0x81100800 0x2002a085 0x04011250
0x4a881040 0x08290014 0x00000806 *0xc0586000 0x05414000 0x10806101
0x24005020 0x00044421 *0x80482510 *0xa0c00128 0x08048004 0x00080200
0x08000846 0x00880402 0x00019001 0x1145a200 *0x89260580 *0x91410011
0x00054a91 *0xa6b04101 0x70481280 *0xa00180c0 *0x92884000 *0xa51e0210
0x504802a0 0x228c0842 0x00908800 0x01011005 *0x80a49180 0x05008240
0x124280c4 0x41100290 0x04000220 0x50894041 *0xa1600a01 0x40350002
0x0694400a *0x80008004 0x00106450 0x2000a000 0x3a390814 0x68002a84
0x00008240 0x41842500 0x09800490 0x020c0201 0x14480008 0x40800000
0x00048a60 0x00080800 0x40020005 0x14081000 *0x80180000 0x00009200
0x00088000 0x00000850 0x01c00042 0x00200202 *0x80010000 0x12204060
0x40010000 0x40800000 *0xa00a9a00 0x0a929081 0x60204014 0x00619000
Don't know if this is what happens to your box but if it does there's propably nothing you can do about it, besides trying a different firmware.
Message Edited by valkoapina on 05-10-2008 11:46 PM

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