Wrong router for my needs

I think I let a pretty advertisement convince me to buy a product that is not suited for my needs; I hope someone here can shed some light on this for me as I am new to wireless home networking.
I have an Ubuntu (8.04) box hard-wired to my cable modem; I have it set up as a dual-boot machine so that I can get to Windows XP Professional as needed.
I also have a Dell laptop running Ubuntu as well; I use it primarily when I am on the road for work to keep up on email, or for anything requiring me to remote login to either my work computer (Windows remote desktop; I run IE6 in a Wine shell) or my home computer (Either through VNC viewer, or 'UltraVNC' in XP).
I also, in my 'spare' time, do some coffee-table computer repairs for friends and coworkers.
Here is what I would like to do:
I would like to be able to have a switch or a router that would let me have the ability to keep my main Ubuntu/XP box wired directly to an 'always on' internet connection.
I would also like to be able to have the laptop plugged in to an 'always on' connection, but I don't know that it's a show-stopper if I have to jump through a few hoops when I want to connect it.
I would also like to have a port available to connect to the internet with whatever random computer I find myself working on.
Ultimately, I would like to be able to use the wireless card on the lappy to connect to a network in my home without the need for a dedicated wire.
That being said... I did some quick research (*too* quick it seems!), and it looked as though the WRT54GL would do everything I need.
So... being new to the wireless-home networking world, I made certain to follow each step on the installation CD (in XP) carefully... and everything went smoothly for a while...
But, every few hours, the internet connection will simply vanish. By that, I mean... the internet status light is green, so I am assuming the router can see the internet, and the lights for both connected computers (laptop and desktop) are green, so I assume that means the router can also see the computers. But neither machine can connect to the internet at all. ifconfig returns 192.168.101, so the router is visible to the computer, it just seems as though the router isnt allowing either machine, on any of the 4 ports, see the internet.
Now this happens after the connection has been running fine for hours.
The fix for this seems to be one of two things... Either I cycle the power on the router, after which I need to refresh the network device list on the computers (or select 'repair network' on the XP machine).
The other solution is to go to the web browser configuration and to select 'Release DHCP' and then 'Renew DHCP', which is fine, I only wish it was documented somewhere to do that as it would have saved me several hours of work to figure it out.
A 'live support' lady had me flash the firmware in response to my inquiry about this, the next one told me to 'observe it carefully', whatever that means. She couldn't explain it further.
But after doing that, the connection will again work for several hours straight, then it will simply vanish again.
Now - in addition to that, here's the part that is making me think I have chosen the wrong product... I am no longer able to remote login to my home computer using either the ip address as reported by ifconfig (which has always worked in the past) or the subdomain name I have set up with DynDNS (which has also always worked) from any machine at all, including the XP box I use in my office at work (which has always worked in the past.)
Having spent countless hours simply trying to get this router to perform as I believed it would, I have yet to even attempt to venture into the wireless side of things; if a hard-wired switch is this befuddling, then I can only imagine what sort of nightmare it will be to get the wireless side to work.
I guess the bottom line is this: I have disconnected the router and plugged the main machine straight into the cable modem, and everything is working as it should.
Can anyone recommend a good, reliable, and always-on router that will allow me to connect up to three machines simultaneously without having to jump through any hoops on at least one port?
And to be honest, I am not really concerned about wireless; the restaurant down the street allows me to connect very easily if I set my lappy near the living room window
Thanks in advance.
(edit - the formatting of this post was horrible... I added the HTML line breaks and it's much better now!)
Message Edited by mwright on 09-30-2008 06:03 AM
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"it will definately work!"
It definately worked for about an hour, then it went away.
And it continues to do so.
And this is the newest firmware which was supposed to have this problem taken care of!
Actually, does anyone know if there is a newer version available? I only ask because this version is quite old, even though it came directly from the linksys website (the live support technician sent me the link just to sure), and is the same version as was already on the router to begin with, and it still has the configuration page for releasing the DHCP, and I was told by their live support that the new version had eliminated this problem.
I guess I can go in and do the release DHCP thing every few hours, but it still just seems like that is something that could be handled by a script. And the part that bothers me, is that if I decide to go ahead and try and brave setting it up to use the wireless features, then will I be able to release the DHCP from the laptop? Or will I need to go back to the main computer that is hard-wired?
More importantly, if they ever get this to where it can allow a remote login, won't it kick out the computer doing the remoting in?
Or is this something that is simply beyond the scope of this product?

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