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Linksys WRT54G becomes unresponsive

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coupland

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Okay, so I have a WRT54G and I've found that when I use my notebook (which is connected over wireless) to surf the web, the router becomes unresponsive within a few minutes. No computers on the network can access web sites, and the only solution is to power cycle the hub. Now some additional detail to make it weirder:

- Only port 80 traffic grinds to a halt. I can still ping web sites, and Bittorrent and newsgroups still work.
- It seems to only happen with the notebook, only very rarely does it happen using another PC
- I have a Tablet PC that also connects wirelessly and everything works, so it's not specific to wireless
- The problem with the notebook is specific to the machine, not the NIC. I disabled the onboard 802.11g and tried a PCMCIA 802.11b card with the same results.
- It's not specific to whether I'm running Firefox or IE. Any kind of port 80 traffic generated by the notebook will bring the router to a halt.
- It's not specific to the router. I tried two different WRT54G units. One is a v5 and the other is a v6.
- There is no special software running on the notebook. Just vanilla XP Professional.
- It's nothing simple like a duplicate computer name or IP address, that all checks out.

Anyone got any ideas? This has got me stumped.
 
The initial official firmware for the WRT54G v5s & v6s were notoroius for being crap. I dont know if the latest version have improved but it certainly helps having the latest. Also you might want to look into installing dd-wrtDD-wrt micro third party firmware onto your router. More information about these routers and their conversion to dd-wrt firmware can be found at www.linksysinfo.org.
 
As I mentioned in another thread, I followed your link and resurrected an old v2.2 router I had collecting dust, so I'll try this one. Since I agree, the v5 and v6 aren't nearly as reliable as the older ones. Hoping this one works, since it was solid as a rock before I toasted it.
 
Im glad to be of help, my router here at home is also a v2.2 and it is amazing how stable this router is with third party firmware. Im using Tomato right now because of its gimmicks, but other such as Thibor and DD-wrt are just as stable. Actually the differences between the pre v5 and v5 and over are not much, ROM size (that is why you can only load DD-wrt micro on them) and operating system. The VxWorks OS on these routers is apparently very badly implemented, but that can easily be fixed by loading dd-wrt on them (linux).
 
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