WRT54G vers 7 connection drop problem

I've bought this router a week ago and sometimes in 10 minutes he dissapear out the wireless list... Sometimes it is in 2 hours and sometimes in few minutes.. I updated my FW to 7.00.4 But the problem stays..
In games or MSN I log out then and 30 seconds later the wireless router is again in the wireless list and I must log back in.. Or I must turn the power off my router 30 sec. and then turn back in... It's very frustating
Someone Can help me?
Message Edited by JASL on 02-18-200702:46 AM

try out a few tweaks in the wireless settings....
change the ssid , channel to 1 or 11...
under the "advanced wireless settings" , change the beacon interval - 50 , fragmentation threshold - 2304 and RTS threshold - 2304 ....
do a power cycle after changing the settings

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