Unreliable wireless router

[coolhand78]

I have a netgear wgr614v4 wireless router that keeps on losing wireless connectivity. The XP wireless utility can still see the wireless network but I can't connect to it until I've rebooted the router. It's extremely frustrating and was wondering if anyone else has had a similar problem and knows of a solution.
I'm using a netgear wg311v2 pci card to connect to the router and the network is totally open and unprotected (removed protection to see if it was the source of the problem).

 

[Entropism]

I had the same problem, and while I know next to nothing about networking (wireless or not), I couldn't for the life of me find out the problem. So I got some new buffalo gear (54mb/s router and pci card), had problems with THAT, called Buffalo's tech support, and they solved the problem for me. It was a combination of RF interference and windows SP2 went wonky on me. I rolled back to SP1 and I have 100% signal at 54mb/s now, running smooth.

I had your same equipment, and I had NOTHING but problems, even when it did work. But try rolling back to SP1, even if SP2 has worked alright for a few weeks. Mine worked fine up until last week, and I had SP2 installed since the IT package was available to download (a month ago?).

 

[coolhand78]

I was hoping I wouldn't have to uninstall SP2 but I might just give it a try. Thanks.
Anyone else want to chime in on this?

 

[Talksmartz]

Do you have the firewall on in SP2?
(it enables it by default) - can cause huge headaches as it frequently doesn't prompt you when you attempt to establish connections (just blocks by default).

This doesn't sound like it would be the cause of your issue - as power cycling the router corrects it - but check it anyway.


Best suggestion is to upgrade your router to latest firmware...

 

[packmule]

You will have much better luck not using a netgear device.