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Connections drop when other devices turn on

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therealnickdanger

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I have a DI-524 WiFi B/G 4-port router that has been working really well for years, but it has one flaw that drives me nuts.

Devices on the network:

Media server - wired
Vista Laptop - wireless
Vista Laptop - wireless
Vista Laptop - wireless
MacBook - wireless
Vista desktop - wired
Xbox 360 - wired
Xbox 360 - wireless

I have assigned static IPs to most of these devices. The issue is that when anyone in the house turns on a device, it momentarily interupts the connection for all other devices on the network. Playing a game? Connection lost. Streaming Netflix? Connection lost. I know that this shouldn't be normal as I've never seen it happen on other networks.

Any ideas?
 
The connections are restored at some point I take it? Or once it's interrupted it doesn't connect again...(probably a sign of duplicate static IP's).

Anything new that you've added that may have been the start of the problem? You could look to see if there is a firmware update for your router as well.
 
The connection is restored within 30 seconds, but that's not fast enough to avoid being booted from Xbox Live or just about any other PC gaming title. The problem is that there doesn't seem to be rhyme or reason in regards to which devices are turned on or whether they connect wired or wirelessly. My router has the most up-to-date firmware and I have tried previous versions with no fix.
 
You might have more than 10 concurrent connections active at the same time.

I would Not put on a D-Link524 the kind of Load that you are putting On.
 
My dad has the same router and his can't seem to support more than 6 or 7 connections at a time either.

I know this is a loaded question, but what's the best gigabit router for ~10 connections with Wireless-N? I need to replace some equipment, it seems. Oh yeah, and I want to control packet priority and bandwidth throttling per IP. Is that possible?
 
I'm using the Dlink DGL4500 and its great with mulitples connections have a few pcs and 2 xbox 360's hooked up wirelessly.

Tho its is pricey and i'm not sure of your budget.

I must say its the best consumer router i've used thus far.

Very stable and no connection dropping.
 
look up the surecom flash. There are many revisions of this router but I had a crummy one that wasn't very good and after flashing it with the surecom it was avg. Mine didn't have enough memory for dd-wrt but if yours does I'd flash it to that.
 
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