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Wireless Issues

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jbbrown

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I am using a Linksys WRT54GL router with the Tomato firmware at home. My wife and I each have a laptop that we use to connect to the Internet wirelessly.

If one laptop is online, there is no problem with the connection. But, as soon as the other laptop also gets online, one or both laptops lose connectivity. Then, usually after several minutes, both laptops will connect and be fine (though there have been times where one laptop will not connect until the other one disconnects). This started happening several months ago and I've had the router for over 3 years now.

I have tried messing with the settings on the router, resetting it, and new firmware, but nothing has worked. I'm not sure if this is a hardware issue with the router or the laptop wireless cards or some other issue.

Any ideas?
 
Have a friend bring their wireless laptops over and see if that works, if not, maybe it's time to invest in a new router?
 
When it started happening, did you remember if there were any hardware changes to either of the notebooks (could it have been the result of a new wireless card or something to that effect)? Have you tried assigning each laptop a static address instead of using DHCP?
 
ch33zw1z said:
What version of Tomato are you running? Have you tried DDWRT at all?
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I was using the latest firmware from Linksys, but thought I'd give Tomato a try - currently using version 1.25. I have not tried DDWRT before...it might be worth a try though.
 
Wuzup101 said:
When it started happening, did you remember if there were any hardware changes to either of the notebooks (could it have been the result of a new wireless card or something to that effect)? Have you tried assigning each laptop a static address instead of using DHCP?
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There have not been any hardware changes and I cannot remember anything that would have affected it.

I have assigned my laptop a static IP, but I don't think I've done it on the other laptop as well.
 
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