WRT54G to WAP54G WOES

I am getting so mad about this problem I am seeing red. For the last six months that I've had a wrt54g and a wap54g to connect to it, they will periodically without and regularity go offline - sometimes it's the wap54g that is inaccessible sometimes the wrt54g locks up and even a wired computer cannot connect. I don't understand why this is happening and there is no internal log to give me a clue what's wrong. Should I upgrade to a more robust Cisco product instead of these cheap Linksys routers and access points?
Thanks!
Greg Tompkins
(please PM me if you can help me by remoting into these things there may be monetary incentive if you are a consultant)
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Message Edited by OnnagokorO on 09-09-2007 06:48 PM

Hello and thanks for the quick reply!
I upgraded the firmware on both the A/P and the router right when I took them out of the box and then the router's when a new version came out not too long ago. Could it be an incompatibility between the WRT54GS (I earlier posted "G" not "GS)? I do have another router, a WRT54G that I could swap out in WRT54GS's place. I just want to know if there are logs which would give me an idea as to what is happening with this. Would you recommend an upgrade to the open source version of the O/S on the WRT54G?
Thanks!
--GREG--

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