Belkin and Linksys Routers locking up

Ok so here is whats going on, origionally I had a linksys router which
I used and which I would have to hard boot at least 3 or 4 times a day
in order to get it working again. It didn't always depend on traffic,
or how many computers or wether the wireless was working it would just
lock up. So recently, about a month or so ago I purchassed a Belkin
f5d7230-4 wireless router/access point and switched to a secondary
router I had obtained (a Belkin f5d5231-4). Now I'm on cable internet
so I have the 5231 running as router so Modem to 5231 to a wireless
switch which my desktops all 4 of them run on, (this helped EQ2 lag
issues a great deal. also from the 5231 I have a cable running to the
7230 which is supposto be my wireless access point for the
network.However I am still having issues with the 5231 router freezing
periodically with no real reason as to why, sometimes it will be
working and freeze when loading google.com othertimes i'll be in the
middle of an eq2 game and it will lock up. sometimes it will lock up
when a laptop connects to the wireless. Any suggestions as to what
oculd be causing this, If you would like any fruther info for
diagnostics please ask and i'll be happy to post it.

On another related however side topic I have recently installed a
wireless card in my neighbors computer he has 4 computers connected to
his via the ethernet port we have been trying to find a stable way (i
have gotten this to work but its intermitentent) to share my internet
connection via his wireless card to all his desktops. I have managed to
get all 4 working at the same time as all my desktops and laptops
however it inevitably stops working after a few hours and it requires
me to play with settings before it will start working again. Any
suggestions?

if anyone has a comprehensive solution to these problems either by
total reconfig or simple things I might be missing please let me know.
Any refrences to documents dealing with these issues would be completly
welcome. at this point I would settle for my router to stop freezing
and to that end I have recently modified my old linksys router with a
case fan and when i have managed to finish reconfiguring it to match
the 5231 I will be swapping it back in to see if that fixes the
problem. On an intresting side note, I have tried all the routers 5231,
7230, and the linksys befw11s4 v4 as the primary router and all three
have the same lockup problem....I have a hard time believing the equip
is faulty after having tested 3 of them all the computers are win2k or
XP so perhaps there is a reason for it there who knows.

Thanks for your suggestions

RcCypher wrote:
>I had a linksys router which
> I used and which I would have to hard boot at least 3 or 4 times a day
> in order to get it working again.

Reading further along, my guess would be that it's a BEFW11S4 v4. I
used one of these router at home for about a year. It did the same
thing. No amount of firmware updates, downgrades, tweaks, or tinkering
would get Humpty Dumpty to stay on the wall. Bottom line is that it's
a piece of junk and suitable for a door stop.

> However I am still having issues with the 5231 router freezing
> periodically with no real reason as to why, sometimes it will be
> working and freeze when loading google.com othertimes i'll be in the
> middle of an eq2 game and it will lock up. sometimes it will lock up
> when a laptop connects to the wireless. Any suggestions as to what
> oculd be causing this, If you would like any fruther info for
> diagnostics please ask and i'll be happy to post it.

That would be a Belkin F5D5231-4. Try hard not to abrev or trunc.

Google find quite a few unfavorable user reviews on this router. For
example:
<http://www.gaunz.org/shop/belkin-f5d52314-4+port-cable+dsl-router,B00008VF4L_Review-3.htm>
Search for the model number and the word "hang" or "lockup". The hangs
do not appear to be universal and there may be something unique about
the ones that are hanging. It might be firmware version, hardware
version, or specific lot number. I can't tell from here. Anyway, you
seem to have a fatal attraction to unreliable wireless devices.

> On another related however side topic

Post it in a separate message. Mixing topics is a guaranteed way to
get me confused.