WRT54G wierd connection issue

this problem just started the other day... i am unable to connect to Internet explorer or AIM, it tells me no connection. but the wierd thing is, is i have connection, i can log into Ventrilo, i can play Counter strike Source Online, but World Of Warcraft tells me no connection, so half of my online things work, half dont. I am able to write this post because if i plug the modem directly into computer it works fine, but it doesnt fix all the other computers we have that are wireless.
The router i have is the WRT54G, the modem is SurfBoard SB3100 Cable Modem, internet service is Adelphia (now time warner), not sure if you guys want to know that.
but it seems to be a direct issue witht he router as i can do everything fine normally
oh, and the router is passworded, not sure the correct term, but to get on my wireless you need to enter a set IP and stuff
thanks for any help (i d/led new firmware, havent tryed it yet though) a friend told me that may help

Your friend may be correct. Flash your firmware then reset the router to Factory Default settings, then reconfigure it for your ISP and wireless network. Let us know how that turns out.
Richard Aichner (Ikester)

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Good evening,
I picked up a new WRT54G (v5) the other day to replace an old BEFW11 router, and so far have been far less than impressed. I have one computer on the wired connection, and one on wireless. It seems, though, that if the wireless system is running any P2P software (Limewire, in this case), or anything else which creates a large number of simultaneous connections (BitTorrent for d/ling CD images, for instance), the router simply dies. Although any existing TCP connections are fine (e.g. MSN Messenger switchboard connections, though not _new_ conversations), it is virtually impossible to generate any new TCP connections. They appear to connect immediately, and then disconnect less than a second later. This occurs for HTTP, SSH, Telnet, IMAP, and SMTP connections, so far as I've tried.
A hard reset of the router seems to be the only thing that helps.
I ran into similar issues with the BEFW11, and ended up using it only as an access point, and relying on an old D-Link DI-704P to take care of NAT -- and this worked fine. But in this case, I want to take the DI-704 with me when I move, not leave it here ... and so I would really prefer if the Linksys could, uh, do what it's supposed to in the first place.
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EDIT: Now upgraded to v1.00.9. Apparently this doesn't work over HTTPS, but it worked fine via HTTP itself. We'll see if this has made a difference ...
I see some similar reports from other people. Any suggestions?
Message Edited by tibbbsa on 07-08-2006 09:00 PM

tibbbsa wrote:
I see some similar reports from other people. Any suggestions?
yeah use a WRT54GL instead. my website is unindated with wrt54g/GS v5 and v6 router problems. how linksys has been able to ignore this problem is beyond me. the WRT54GL is by far the better router. (linux based)
Regards Simon
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The firmware that was shipped with this router (WRT54G v6) seemed to have a corrupt web GUI. So I decided to upgrade and fix the problem as well as get some added features. I successfully flashed DD-WRT micro Generic v23 SP1 onto the router using TFTP and have had it running smoothly for about 2 months now.
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I'm sorry for the length of my post; I felt I should describe the situation. I'd appreciate any help you guys could provide. Let me know if there is any info I've neglected to post.
Message Edited by FatherMerrin on 06-09-200706:24 AM

Well you can just send it to Linksys and see what they do and if they do it under warranty. Either they simply reflash the firmware with tools they have available and never notice or they notice and let you know that they won't do it for free. In the latter case you just let them know that they can keep it. As you are planning to buy a new router anyway you don't really loose anything except a bricked router (O.K. some spare parts maybe...).
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Hello experts,
I have unsuccessfully tried to help my wife connect her XP laptop to her work VPN over our home wi-fi network. I have a WRT54GS v.4 router with the latest firmware, WPA2 encryption. It connects to the VPN just fine but is unable to ping any internal IP addresses and I get the following log message everytime.
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b) Reset to factory defaults, tried running it without any encryption, tried running it in DMZ mode >> No joy, still get the same above error message in the VPN log.
c) Opened up ports 500 and 1723 for TCP/IP and UDP with her laptop's IP address >> Still no luck.
All passthrough options are enabled for VPN in the router's config interface. I have also tried disabling the router's firewall.
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Message Edited by sidewinder_us on 10-10-2009 07:36 AM

No, I wasn't trying to ping my router from the VPN connection, I was trying to ping the VPN host server at the office for troubleshooting purposes and the request times out everytime. I am still getting the error message in the log "AddRoute failed to add a route: code 87". I disabled "Block Anonymous Internet Requests" like you said but it didn't make any difference. I am able to ping the computer's IP address assigned by the VPN but I can't ping the host server or anything else.
It's basically connecting to the VPN but not connecting as in I can't do anything on the VPN like access local folders or run a specific software called eClinicalWorks which works fine from the office.
If I plug the laptop directly to the cable modem, I don't get that error message in the VPN client's log anymore and everything works fine.
Message Edited by sidewinder_us on 10-12-2009 03:14 PM

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Alright... so lets see how clear i can make this. First let me explain how my network is setup.
So here are the main pieces of my network(excluding computers)
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Router: Linksys WRT54G Version 5
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After some poking around i realized that any Continuous Connections out to the internet made prior to the router disappearing would stay up, such as a file download, a Game connection(Final Fantasy XI or World of Warcraft), Streaming Video/Audio and my pings to the modem and to Google. But any new connections made then would not connect. (example trying to open a new webpage, or clicking on a link after the router disappeared would not connect.)
Its also very random, it'll happen just once during a day, or every 10 minutes for several hours, or not happen for 3-4 days.
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I'm starting to believe that its just another defective Linksys Version 5 Router. Versions 1-4 of the WRT54G's are rock solid with the 16mb of ram and Linux based Firmware, but ever since Version 5 when they cut the ram to 8mb and started using a proprietary Firmware that not impressing. I personally administrate eight of these Routers. Five of them are version 3-4, and out of the other Three, one has worked flawlessly, another Died after 2 months and I've replaced with a netgear Wireless router. This is the Third one and I'm not willing to give up on it yet.
Anyone have any thoughts? Anyone see a flaw that i don't?
Message Edited by CooperWBC on 09-14-2006 02:17 AM

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I facing a very wierd DHCP issue and would like to know your thoughts on it.
I have my wired clients on vlan 1 and wireless cleints(eap-peap) on VLAN 2.
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WRT54GS wireless connection becomes unreachable every 3-6 minutes

I just got signed up with COMCAST (TV, Internet, and VOIP). The Linksys WRT54GS is connected to the COMCAST Internet-VOIP box. Everything is working fine except the wireless. I bought the Linksys WRT54GS and when I run "ping 192.168.1.1 -t" from my latop via the wireless the connection becomes unreachable every 3-6 minutes. When I "refresh the list" from the laptop the connection is working. The wireless is using WEP security, the strength during the test is 3-4 bars. The problem has been seen in the same room (7 ft away) with 5 bars. I've not yet contacted COMCAST because at this time my thoughts are that I've misconfigured the Linksys. Allen

Allen:
If you purchased the router elsewhere, save the call to Comcast. They won't help you.
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I had a problem with my WRT54GS not connecting to my inte...

I had a problem with my WRT54GS not connecting to my internet until I cloned my old routers mac address. I was using a BEFW11S4 which was bullet proof and worked for several years until I changed to Wireless G. Upon purchasing the WRT54GS and setting up all parameters exactly like I had before I could not make any connections, wireless or otherwise until I cloned my mac address to the same address as my previous router. Apparently my ISP had that mac address registered and would not properly perform DHCP even though all other paremeters were correct. I read lots of messages here on line with issues with the WRT54GS connecting and this fixed my problem outright. If you upgrade from a previous generation router (Linksys or otherwise apparently) copy your old routers mac address and clone it to your new router and you should be able to connect. This fixed my problem after several hours and days of troubleshooting. Good Luck Karnage

As an alternative to using MAC address cloning, you can phone your ISP, tell them you have a new router, and tell them to reset their system to accept the MAC address of your new router. This way, you won't have to remember the old MAC address, in the event that you need to reset your router to factory defaults.

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Forgive me if this has been addressed somewhere on here - i looked for a similar situation and couldnt find one--this is wordy, but hopefully it is useful info to solve the issue.
My future father-in-law runs a Sony Vaio with Windows XP with SP2, on Charter hi-speed internet through a Motorola cable modem. virus and firewall are from Trend Micro. Comp and modem are approx 5 years old. They just got a WRT54GS (v. 7 i believe) and had no problems setting it up right out of the gate - he used the LELA interface and was up and running in no time. all night it was fine. The problems started the next day, when they tried to get on the internet. Their homepage is MSN, and it wouldnt load up. they also tried to go to several of thier regularly visited websites, nothing worked. Eventually they gave up and disconnected the router, going directly through the old modem. that let them back online for about an hour, then it dropped the connection and they couldnt get it back. finally, they un-installed the LELA software and everything was back to normal.
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I checked connections (all good), un-hooked the router, and had the same non access problems, so i dumped the software as well. read a bit online and then re-installed everything, it wouldnt let me onto the internet, so i went into the router and changed the IP to 192.168.2.1. released the DHCP and renewed it, and everything was great.
Then tried to connect the laptop (ibm thinkpad, win XP SP2) had some troubles, mis-entered the WAP key, fixed that, and got on the internet with the laptop. Everything seemed good, but when he tried to access his work server (via LotusNotes) it wouldnt allow him in. something about the tcp/ip being denied.
The laptop is running PcAnywhere, which i have read may have issues. One thing i noticed is that LELA recognized the laptop twice. once as an actual computer with the right name, and once as an unknown device. unless i disable pcAnywhere and the IBM access connections software, the recognized laptop doesnt access the network, only the unknown device does.
1.) Is the re-assigned IP solution the best way to handle the dropped connection? did it even really solve the problem?
and
2.) is the laptop connection issue something with the router, or something with the different programs on the computer itself?

Hi,
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click here to check the latest firmware
Network Security Administrator (EC Council)
linksysfirmwares.googlepages.com/

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I bought a WRT54G, it's a version 6 if that matters, using the latest Linksys firmware.
The WRT54G is connected to my main desktop and DSL modem, dynamic IP and PPPoE. I set the router with a static IP, there's WPA2 going as well.
I have a notebook and another desktop computer connected wirelessly.
The issue is that my main computer will seem to lose its Internet connection randomly for 15 minutes and then come back by itself.
The problem is hard to describe but I'll try:
Let's say everything is working fine, I go on www.someforum.com/forums and browse around then I go to www.bestbuy.com and click a few links.
Then the issue starts, I get a "Cannot find server" to sites I haven't visited yet in this session like Google or eBay. I can't ping them either. However, if I go to Best Buy or here, it still works fine. I can still browse the forums. So, it seems like somehow, if the connection is "cached," everything still works but I can't make new connections.
Also, during that 15 minutes when my hardwired desktop has the problem, my 2 other computers work fine over wireless.
I can access my router at 192.168.1.1 at all times.

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
So typically, a fixed LAN IP address must be in the range of:
192.168.1.2 thru 192.168.1.99 or
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assuming that you did not change your default DHCP server range.
So for example, if you assigned your desktop computer an address of 192.168.1.101, this could be the cause for your problem. So what address did you assign to your desktop computer when you used the Answer ID 534 procedure?

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I have a WRT54G (V.2) wireless router with the latest firmware and a couple of PC (XP) on a wireless-G network. I can see a variety of other wireless-g networks in my neighborhood all within signal range. Any where from 8-10 of them...
I have changed channels so that I am not on or near most of the other networks, but with that many it is impossible to find a unique channel and I know they overlap some what.
I seem to have on and off connectivity issues with a PC about 30-40' away in another room. It works for 5 or so minutes and then disconnects, reconnects to the wireless network and it works again for a little bit.
No changes have been made to the equipment over the last year. All I can contribute it to is the additional wireless networks within range now.
Anyone have any suggestions on what I can do to better the connectivity? I see Wireless-N(draft) out, but from all the reviews it does seem to work any better than wireless-g.
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Thanks for the input. The network SSID is unique and I am running WPA encryption. I cannot say what kind of phone systems the neighbors has, but my wireless phone system is at 5.8 Ghz.
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