Question about network

[running222]

Ok I have a WISP for internet. I bought a belkin 54g router and the signal kept dropping throughout the day especially at night. So I thought it must be the router because I could hook a computer directly into the antenna and it work perfect. So I thought I will get a linksys WRT54g hoping that a more known brand name would have better range. I try to set it up and no dice when it tries to detect internet. Ok, I hook the computer directly to the antenna and I have no problems getting on the internet. So the I change the DNS server to the one my WISP gave thinking that could cause a problem while it was trying to detect the internet. No good, it refused to detect the internet.

Ok I go and get the Belkin 54g with mimo (box says 1000ft range instead of 400ft like the other one was). This works fine for about a day. During that day I am downloading and using ping plotter to record the route, everything seems fine. This morning I wake up and the internet is down. This time it is not losing connection to the network. So I look through a few different things and nothing seems off in the settings, so I unplug it, wait 30 seconds, and try again. Boom internet again. I download a 600mb file to see if there is going to be problem with anymore disconnects, but no the file downloads fine.

Then tonight I am surfing and I get server not found. I unplug the router again and it starts working, 20min later same thing, server not found. I unplug it again and it works. Ok it goes out again in 10-20 min, so I goto the router home page and reset it from there. It works for about 1min and server not found. Unplug it again and I can surf so at this point I am thinking it must be getting too hot or it must be a bad router. I have put a fan behind it to see if that helps but so far it does not seem to be helping. Also, I do not see how I could get 2 bad routers, seeing as how I can plug directly in and not have any problems.

So for anyone that read all that thanks, and thanks in advance for ideas of what could be wrong.

 

[Fardringle]

If you have the same problem with multiple different routers, I would say it has to be one of three things:

1) You are using a bad ethernet cable between the WISP antenna and the routers.
2) Power source for the routers is bad and causing the routers to malfunction.
3) The ISP is doing something to prevent you from using a router, or they may simply need to change the configuration of the connection to allow the router to work properly with their network.

Try a different ethernet cable and a different power source (preferably a wall socket on a completely different circuit in the house). If that doesn't solve the problem, call your ISP.

 

[acaeti]

Fardringle may be right. Here are a few more possibilities:

-if you are using bittorrent/skype/p2p, maybe you are overloading the capacity of your belkin/wifi-router. Power cycling it flushes it's connection tracking for NAT and it is ok until the connection tracking table fills again.
-Is your WISP an 802.11b/g WISP or something else? If it is 802.11n/g perhaps it is using Cisco 1500 mesh radios with a controller and the radios are dynamically changing 802.11b/g frequencies to get around interference (possibly even interference from your wifi router). Every time they jump freq.s, maybe they are causing a problem with your wifi router.

Really though, it sounds like a p2p thing. Power cycling shouldn't do jack unless it is a p2p thing, or your pc's wireless card is kinda shady.