WRT54G just stops... frequently.

This past week, my WRT54G v5 has simply been giving me endless grief. It seems that the router just stops working several times a day. As yet I can track no specific cause of the problem. I lose Internet, and when I ping the router (192.168.1.1) I receive the message "Host is down". It seems more frequent that the router dies when I'm using a laptop with wireless access, but this is not always the case (sometimes it's just down when I wake up in the morning). Modifying MTU size doesn't seem to help, nor does altering the broadcast frequency.
Here's the network layout:
ISP is Comcast (Cable) feeding into the router off of a Motorola Surfboard 5100. The service and modem are both fine: if I connect the PC directly to the modem, all is well. The all four of the router's LAN ports are claimed: an iMac G5, a Vonage device, and two old Linux machines. Feeding off the WAN are a TiVo, and occasionally two laptops: an iBook G4 and another old Linux machine running Ubuntu. This little network was functioning quite well for the past 9 months, until recently, and I've changed nothing lately.
Anyone have experience with this situation?

I am having the exact same problem as you. I am using a WRT54GS v6. Everything has run fine for about 2 months but lately the router seems to lose its internet connection. When it happens all the lights are still on however I am unable to ping the router. Everything returns to normal after I unplug the router and plug it back in. I have not made any changes to the router since I started using it and this has started happening just recently.
I have tried upgrading to the latest firmware and it did not help. I am using comcast internet and I used a wired connection on the router most of the time and occasionally use wireless with my laptop. TIVO also has a wireless connection that goes through this. Due to the fact that it has worked perfectly fine for two months and now does this atleast a couple times a week I am thinking it is some kind of hardware malfunction. Through the many searches I have done I have found that this is a extremely common problem and no solution has been found yet.
You can go to this other thread and see that these guys are having the same problem. I will think twice before buying another linksys product thats for sure.
http://forums.linksys.com/linksys/board/message?board.id=Wireless_Routers&message.id=31424
Message Edited by jinruss on 03-12-200704:42 PM

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WRT54G - wireless just stopped working on all devices

Hi All,
I've had my WRT54G for a couple of years and have my Desktop hard wired (to the router) and 2 laptops and an ipod connecting wirelessly succefully for the past 2 years.Woke up this morning and nothing will connect wirelessly,finding the router is intermitent and when it does it cannot establish a connection with it. I can connect the devices via the network cable directly to the router and all works fine, it's just wireless that has suddenly stopped working.
I have tried 'turning it off and on again" turning WEP off, changing WEP password etc. but nothing seems to work. Im at a loss as to why my entire wireless network/connection has just stopped working?
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Message Edited by coldfuel on 02-06-2009 07:36 AM
Solved!
Go to Solution.

I'm having a similar problem. This past month or so, the router just kicks my wireless computers off the network. Then I can't find the network at all. My work around has been to go into the wireless setting (via my hard-wired computer) and change the wireless channel from 9 to 11 or vice versa. This keeps the network connected for a day or two and then kicks us off again until I change the channel.
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