Issues with 2 different routers

[mrmitra]

I'm having a router nightmare right now.

I currently have a Netgear Super G router set up. It keeps dumping the internet though; this is happening with increasing regularity. This can occur randomly but increases when I am doing high bandwith activities like video streaming or gaming. If I power cycle the router then the internet will work again. The best example I can give of this is in WoW. I tried to join a higher pop server and the internet would crash within seconds. I then switched to a lower population server and the game worked. When I went into a high population area of the server (Orgrimmar) the internet dropped and would drop everytime I tried to re enter the game.

I have another netgear router (WNR834B) that I had set up at a previous apartment. I have the same ISP as I had then (Roadrunner). I reset the router to factory settings. When I hook up the router to set it up it keeps thinking my cable internet is a static IP. Is there any way I can fix any of these routers?

 

[mpilchfamily]

Look for a firmware update for your router model.

 

[redbeard1]

There were some older routers, with Netgear having a few of them, that would crash under high usage, as they ran out of memory trying to keep up with a large number of concurrent connections, like P2P software creates. It seems like that may fit what you are seeing when you use a highly used server.

Both routers you list are wireless models. Are you gaming using the wireless connection? If you are, have you tried using the wired ports?