WRV54G Losing printer connections

I have a WRV54G and about every 24 hours it either reboots or something causes it to lose connections to my printers and computers. When it does this it also assigns new IP addresses to each device and of course the printer ports assigned to each printer are no longer a valid address so I need to go into each printer setting and assign a different port coresponding with the new IP address it has been assigned. This is causing a lot of work and headache and there should be a way to get around it but to date I have not found a way and can get no help from support on this issue. Does anyone else have any knowledge of this issue and have you found a way to get around it. My old Linksys did not have this problem nor did my D-Link
Thanks in advance
Message Edited by oldpup223 on 08-25-2008 09:27 AM

Why not assign the printer a permanent ip outside the range of the DHCP, but in the same group?  For example, if the router's ip is 192.168.1.1, the DHCP might be set to assign in the range 192.168.1.100 to 192.168.1.150.  Assign the printer 192.168.1.151, and the router won't assign that to anything else.

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