Wireless N WRT300, Constantly Losing Connection

This router Constantly loses the internet connection, and I am HARD WIRED to this router, is this not somthing they should have mastered Ages ago?
The wireless signal is Weak and constantly loses it's connection.
I've tried calling them to fix it, I've changed the MTU, from 1500, to 1400, to 1300 etc, etc, I 've also set it to auto.... nothing.
Every so often the internet connection Drops, the only way to fix it, is to Unplug the router and plug it back in. Soon as this is done the internet works instantly again. I can see the wireless being buggy, but NOT the hardwire, there is NO excuse for this.
And to boot I just love how bestbuy wont allow any exchanges on this type of hardware, And cannot return it, and I cannot exchange it for a different router. I can only echange it for the exact same make and model of router.
Message Edited by curtisbouvier on 11-16-200603:06 AM

I also have the wrt300N router. I am losing connection all the time either wirelessly or wired. When the router works it is blazing fast, but every 2-5 minutes it just HANGS which is REALLY ANNOYING!
I have updated the firmware. This happens on my wired XP machine, my wireless XP, or on my apple laptop. It is not the computers becuase my old wireless router (linksys i forget the number, but it was a b system at least 4-5 years old) did not have this issue....
I saw on some threads that port forwarding may help? Is this a solution? Anyone have any ideas? Clearly by reading the posts this is not an isolated problem....

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