WRT160N Wired connections have trouble staying connected

I bought the Linksys WRT160N router a few days ago to replace my older D-Link router. It installed easily, and for a few hours everything was fine. Ever since those few hours though, on my 3 wired connections, they all lose internet way to constantly. However one of them usually works fine, the Xbox 360. But my 2 computers that are connected every 2 or 3 pages the internet tries to load, it loses connection. To get to this page from Firefox's start page, and register inbetween, which is about 6 or 7 pages, I had to reset my connection twice. Sometimes however all I have to do is refresh the page and it'll load, but having to do that a lot can get annoying. All of my wireless connections generally always work fine, no connection problems at all.
I've tried resetting the router and resetting the modem.
Any ideas as to what's wrong?
Oh and for some reason I can't get into the router's settings on my computer. Whenever the login popup appears and I type in the username and password it just keeps coming back up. I've tried it about 10 times and I've even checked the text file the router made when I first installed it to make sure I was putting in the right information.
Any ideas what's wrong here?
Thanks!

To make your wired connection stable you need to reduce the MTU Size on your router set-up...
If you are unable to access your router set-up page to make the changes you have to enter the correct password, by default the password is admin(no username)...As you have resetted your router to factory defaults you should leave the username blank & in password use admin in lower case...It should open your router set-up...If it does not, hard reset your router again...
Press and hold the reset button for 30 seconds...Release the reset button...Unplug the power cable from your router, wait for 30 seconds and re-connect the power cable...
Open an Internet Explorer browser page.In the address bar type - 192.168.1.1
Leave username blank & in password use admin in lower case...
On the set-up tab change the MTU Size to 1365 and click Save Settings...Also you need to re-configure your router for Internet Access...
If your Internet Service Providor is Cable follow this
If your Internet Service Providor is DSL follow this

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