WRT54G Version 8 losing connectivity.

Greetings,
I work on computers as a side job, and always recommend Linksys for Internet and Networking needs, but this latest version of the WRT54G is leaving me a bit puzzled. My client works off a radio connection from across his yard, because high-speed cable and DSL are unavailable in his area. Due to the nature of this Internet connectoin, the ISP has to have the MAC for the router in order to connect to the Internet.
Anyway, his previous router, a D-Link, was working great until it suddenly burned out, died of old age. He called me to get a replacement, so I went to my local Wal-Mart and picked up a WRT54G v.8, and brought it over. Everything was going great! Internet speeds were at their highest, and everyone was all happy.
One day later, he calls me and says he needs to get his Internet up and working because of the nature of his job (long distance radiology), and that his router wasn't working. He said that all he had to do was unplug it, and plug it back in to get it working again, but it was getting very tedious, and he couldn't keep doing that throughout the day because his on-call nature required 100% connectivity, all the time.
I hopped over to Office De Pot and grabbed a D-Link router, since he had so much success with it in the past, and that ended up being the worst decision I've ever made...We plugged the D-Link in and the Internet speeds went from 600 kb/s down to 22-44 in most cases, according to speakeasy.net and speedtest.net. Trashed the D-Link, hooked the WRT54G back up again, and we were back up to 600 kb/s down and 220 kb/s up.
He calls me this morning to tell me the router quit on him again.
I'm not really sure what to think of this issue. The router works great up until his computer runs idle for a while, and then it just...quits. He said that the wireless still worked just fine (I'll have to clarify which wireless), but his [wired] computer has lost all connectivity. I had a chance to witness the problem yesterday (right before I hooked the D-Link up), and a ipconfig /release/renew did not solve the problem, but unplugging and plugging the router back in, did.
Did I get a defective unit? Are there known problems with this hardware? I flashed the firmware, but the firmware is so new, it's still 8.0.

Okay, I just got off the telephone with my client, and this is what he has to say...
The actual INTERNET itself cuts out, but apparently the router still maintains its network connections. They have a music server located downstairs, and we were backing up its contents through the network connection to a computer located upstairs. The backup was still running successfully, even though the Internet kicks off. This was the wireless he was talking about that still works... (the music server downstairs is wired through the electricity via ethernet-wall-plugs), however, all Internet (wireless, wired) ceases to work.
Unplugging the router and plugging it back in fixes it all, until the Internet connection runs idle, then it stops, again. We're not sure how long it takes before the connection kicks out, but he "went downstairs to read and came back up and it was off."

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