WRT54G v5 Connection Fluctuations

What I would like to ask Linksys is: Is it normal for the connection to keep fluctuating between 18 to 54 MBPS continuously? I would assume not.
Please inform. Thanks

pennylane wrote:
I believe it's just interference. Click here for your reference.
Afraid not. Router in next door in my bedroom. Laptop (wirless) is in living room. Cordless phone is 900 MHz (that doesn't interfere). Microwave only does, when it's on.
I had mentioned that the connection CONTINOUSLY keeps fluctuating, i.e., non-stop. I monitor it on the Windows Task Manager. Just as I click on the website, between the time I click, to the full opening of the page, it has changed speeds already.
I have experimented with changing transmission rate on router as well as Broadcom adapter to be set at 48 MBPS. Settings on both sides are also excluding a-type networks, only b-g included. Now I get a steady stream of 48 rate but what's happening is that connection gets reset every hour-2hours or so. This, I guess, is logical because when the network cannot maintain that high rate of 48, network connection drops.
I could set a lower rate but that defeats the purpose of buying the wireless g router.
Have to figure out a way to maintain the high rate.

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If you purchased the router elsewhere, save the call to Comcast. They won't help you.
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Using the 2 procedures that you noted (answer ID 688 and 534) will get you port forwarding to a computer at a fixed LAN IP address behind your router. This means that your desktop computer would have a fixed LAN IP address that is set in the computer itself, and not assigned by the router's DHCP server. It sounds like the DHCP server is giving addresses to your other computers.
It is important to know what fixed LAN IP address you have assigned your desktop computer. The reason for this is that Linksys has specific rules about assigning fixed LAN IP addresses, and if you don't follow those rules, you can get problems like the one you originally described. That is the reason that I have pursued this question.
When you assign a fixed LAN IP address, it must follow these rules:
1) Any fixed LAN IP address must be outside the DHCP server range, which is typically 192.168.1.100 thru 192.168.1.149
2) The fixed LAN IP address must be consistant with the default gateway address, that is it must typically be in the form of 192.168.1.x
3) The "x" in item 2 cannot be equal to 1 or 255
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192.168.1.2 thru 192.168.1.99 or
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