Steve <shaman[at]kos[dot]net> hath wroth:

>> Uh, you bought the cheapest product available without doing
>> any research, and you are surprised that it isn't perfectly
>> matched to your needs. :p

>Incorrect. My needs include having one computer connected via wireless
>and one via ethernet, both of them for casual home use, very rarely any
>large transfers going on. Sometimes twice a day, the router stops passing
>packets, but is still connected via PPPoE according to the NAS.
>Linksys fails at that... and no downloadable update for my model.
>And it wasn't the cheapest router on the shelf, and it came recommended
>by a number of people who should know - it just "locks up" irregularly,
>so to speak.

That's because it's not a problem that can be solved in firmware.
It's probably a WRT54G version 5.0 or 6.0. You'll find the version
number on the serial number tag. I did battle with a few of these
losers and ended up exchanging them for other routers. The problem
was very similar to what you describe. I've commented on these
models in the past in alt.internet.wireless. Also see:
<http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/content/view/26843/51/>
which has been available since June 2006. My experience has been
that firmware changes to DD-WRT would not solve the erratic hangs
and failures to pass traffic from existing connections. A reboot
would fix the problems, but that's unacceptable for most users.
There were other problems that I found with the v5, but I don't
want to spend hours on this.

>I'm sure the whole newsgroup thanks you two for being so "helpful."

No problem. Perhaps I owe you an explanation. I don't have any
problems with complains, rants, denunciations, and generalizations.
I do these myself on ocassion. It's when someone delivers one of
these without any substantiation that I find it necessary to ask
for details. These "one-line" comments are what has polluted and
ruined many mailing lists and blogs. The author of the previous
"one-line" denunciation of Linksys and CompUSA eventually supplied
the missing substantiations. You didn't.

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