WRT120N - wireless capability routinely fails and requires router reboot

I purchased the WRT120N wireless router about a month ago and have found that the wireless capability of this unit routinely fails. I have numerous wireless devices in our home but it's the Apple iTouches that use it most of the time. Every day or two the wireless function just stops working and I have to rebooot the unit via the admin web page. Then everything continues to work for a while until we notice that it has failed again. I upgraded the router firmware to v1.0.04 and followed the instructions carefully but this made no difference.
Searching the web revealed that this was a wide-spread and well documented problem. Many other forum posts warn consumers to avoid buying this cheap and unreliable product.
I am about to give up return the unit to the store I bought it from but thought I'd give one last chance to this forum to see if there was any fix or alternative.
Please advise. Thanks.
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hi, to this topic I'd like to post my problem. so i have wrt120n wireless router, and I had a problem with connecting two computers ( one PC on cable, other Notebook with wireless). When both computers is online, router start to reboot. Event wiever posted :
Your computer was not able to renew its address from the network (from the DHCP Server) for the Network Card with network address 0000E87303EE. Your computer will continue to try and obtain an address on its own from the network address (DHCP) server. especially when trying to send a file between computers through skype.
so that first problem, now I can't connect to internet at all. I've found almost the same problem:.
The computer is able to connect to the router perfectly fine, but I can't get on to the internet because I'm unable to aquire an IP address from the router. Instead of giving me my 198.168.1.x IP, I'm getting a 169.254.x.x.
But the thing is that i can't connect to router adress 192.168.1.1, I tried to reset router but still nothing. any ideas? how connect to the router?

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