My Wireless Is GONE !!

I am new here because I've never really had any problems with my Wireless.

Here's my scenario. I run a Hughes Net Modem into a Linksys Router (have used 2 different Linksys routers, the WRT150-N and the WRT54GS. I have a Desktop with Vista and a laptop with XP. I also have a Linksys Wireless Extender to extend reach to laptop when I'm on opposite end of house.

I have the WRT-DD installed on 150-N.

While using the WRT54GS, my wife lost the wireless connection from the desktop system. "No wireless networks found". I turned on my laptop, it was also "no networks found" . So I reset everything.

That didn't work so I hardwired my laptop to router. Worked just fine, checked out router homepage. Everything looked fine. Unwired it, my laptop had connection for a minute or two then lost it. It was right next to the router so no reason for it not to hold connection. Desktop failed to find a wireless network. So I checked both the laptop and desktop wireless adapters, all working fine.

So I swap routers to the Linksys WRT-150-N using dd-wrt. Hardwired laptop, everything looks fine. Unwired it, it saw the network but cannot connect. Can't see it at all now. Desktop can't see the new router either.

So now I have a 50 foot CAT-5 network cable running from 150n dd-wrt router to my desktop and it's working just fine.

Here's the conundrum, I have two different computers with different OS that can't see either of two different wireless routers running two completely different software. Please understand that I have ran this wireless network for 2 years plus with only minor hiccups. As long as I'm wired, I'm just fine. I have not recently added any electronics that would likely cause interference.

I have tried to isolate the issue from all avenues as I am usually pretty proficient as troubleshooting such things, but no matter the computer, router or router software, I am having "no wireless networks found".

Any ideas on what could be causing this strange issue?

Thanks,
Matt

Try plugging the Internet into the LAN ports ( one of the four on the right as seen from the back )

Every Linksys router I own has a smoked LAN port