WRT54G v.6 loses wired/wireless connection after 2 hours

I have been trying for two weeks to get my router to maintain connection to both my wired and wireless computers. It drops after 2 hours. It says it is connected but I can't get anywhere. I have DSL with a static address. I put the static IP on the router and have the router DHCPing to the others. Have "live chatted" with Lynksys 4 different times with no luck. Based on live-chat advice, I have updated the firmware to 1.01, and changed the MTU from 1500 to various other numbers with no positive results. Both computers drop at the same time. If I take the router out of the loop and plug straight into the DSL modem, it stays up forever. I run XP home on my wired computer and XP Pro on my wireless laptop. I am at my wits end and would appreciate any help that you can offer.

It didn't like that either! I got to thinking about how it said that I was still connected but I couldn't get anywhere so I called my ISP today and had them double check my connection. The technician said that I was having abnormally high errors rates going out of my dsl (new, had it replaced recently) modem. He had me reset the modem, then reset the router, update my DNS numbers.......same thing, about 2 hours later, DROP! I have about decided that it is a problem between my dsl modem and router instead of my router and computers. For one thing, I reset everything during my lunch break. Back at work, right after lunch, I could ping my static IP on my router but, sure enough 2 hours later, I couldn't ping it despite my ISP saying I was connected. That leads me to believe my router doesn't like my modem or vice versa! Any other suggestions?

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Printer loses wireless connection after some hours

Hello to all!
Printer is connected and I can see on the screen correct IP. Desktops with Win7 and Ubuntu are used. After switching on printer works properly, but several hours later its unreachable from both systems. Printer shows connection, I can see it in router web access tool, but it is unreachable. I have to switch off printer, reboot the router, then switch on printer - and it works. Not very comfort.
Does anybody know how to fix this bug?
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Hi @varspb,
Welcome to the HP Forums!
I noticed that your HP Deskjet Ink Advantage 6525 printer is losing wireless connection after some hours with Windows 7 and Ubuntu. I am happy to look into this connection issue for you!
For Linux support, please take a look at this website, http://hplip.sourceforge.net/.
Otherwise, please see the following guides:
HP Single-Function and Multifunction Printers - 'Printer is offline' Message Displays on the Compute....
HP Deskjet Ink Advantage 6520 e-All-in-One and HP Photosmart 6520 e-All-in-One Printer Series - Prin....
Tips for preventing wireless connection issues
The following tips can help prevent wireless connection issues:
Move the printer and the computer or access point (router) closer together.
Remove any metal objects between the printer and the computer or access point (router). Objects such as refrigerators or metal bookcases can interfere with wireless transmission.
Move any device that emits radio signals farther away from the printer. Devices such as microwaves and cordless telephones can interfere with wireless transmission.
Consult the router manufacturer for updates and configuration of your router.
Make sure that your computer is not connected through a VPN. You cannot access your printer on your wireless network while connected to a VPN.
Also, please take a look at this website, HP Wireless Printing Center - Troubleshooting Issues.
Hope this helps, and have a good day!
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see my post here: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1244216&tstart=0
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Disconnect from Internet.
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WRT54G No longer available as Wireless Connection, Cat5 connect without issue

Without changing a single setting I can only appear to go wireless on the neighbors unsecured network OR plug in the old Cat5 leash. My network no longer appears as an option when attempting to connect wireless. It's consistent across two laptops. Any ideas?

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Click on the Wireless tab
- Here select manual configuration...Wireless Network mode should be mixed...
- Provide a unique name in the Wireless Network Name (SSID) box in order to differentiate your network from your neighbours network...
- Set the Radio Band to Wide-40MHz and change the Wide channel to 9 and Standard Channel to 11-2.462GHz...Wireless SSID broadcast should be Enabled and then click on save settings...
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NOTE : Passphrase should be more that 8 characters...
Click on Advanced Wireless Settings
Change the Beacon Interval to 50 >>Change the Fragmentation Threshold to 2304 Change the RTS Threshold to 2307 >>Click on "Save Settings"...
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MBP takes long time to restore wired network connection after wake-up

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My Mid-2010 MBP (MacBookPro6,2) has been experiencing this problem recently -- Whenever I wake up the computer from sleep, it needs approximately 10 seconds to restore its wired network connection. I know there are other annoying connection issues with MBP's WiFi/AirPort out there, but I'm talking about the wired connection here.
Maybe some don't even think this slowness is a problem at all, but this laptop used to be network-ready right after wake-up until 3~4 months ago. That was around the time when I upgraded to SSD and changed some settings via pmset, not sure if that's the culprit. It is now running OS X 10.8.5 and its pmset settings are:
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http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itpronetworking/thread/eef49e64-157c-4082-8e80-52e48309691f
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party applications. Apple applications like iTunes and Adobe applications like Acrobat Professional and Creative Suites have been known to cause this problem. I've also seen virtualization software like VMWare and VirtualBox cause similar issues
with network adapters.
The solution in most of the cases I've come across has been to stop and disable the Bonjour service. The Bonjour service also masquerades as a service with a name of the format "##Id_String1.6844F930_blahblahblah". Here's how to disable this service
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Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
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Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
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Printer keeps dropping wireless connection after working for a while

My computer stops being able to communicate with the printer wirelessly even thought the printer says it is connected to the network and both the printer and computer are on the same network. What happens is I connect the printer to the network and print something from my computer. Then, after a short while, half an hour maybe, when the printer shows it is connected to the network, I try to print but my computer can't find the printer. The message say the printer cannot be found. If I go to the printer, and reconnect with the wireless connection wizard I can print. But after a short time, I won't be able to print again and have to do the wireless connection wizard again. Wireless direct is off. Don't know if that matters.

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I installed through a wireless connection. I installed inside of VirtualBox, and I installed wireless_tools, wpa_supplicant, and wpa_actiond dialog. So I had wireless internet on the live cd, but not after the install. Is there some driver that I am missing? Is there some VirtualBox special feature I am missing?
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The fix was typing "systemctl enable dhcpcd".
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